Candice:
>"Heaven forfend" (as I said in an earlier post responding to Nate's
>only having just now "come across" the poem and being unaware of
>both its critical renown and its irony, apparently).
I don't usually feel _obliged_ upon reading a poem to turn to the criticism,
no. Whether the poem is ironic or not seems to me to have little to do with
its merits. I'm certainly glad I didn't come across the poem earlier,
anyway. -- all best --N
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