Candice writes:
>
> One of the saddest "stories of the insane" (reverting to Porter) that I've
> ever heard is the delusion Lowell experienced during a
>psychotic episode when he believed he'd written _Lycidas_. Hard not
> to consider the cure worse than the condition for a poet under those
> circumstances.
>
And John Clare thought he was Byron, and actually *wrote* poems called
_Child Harold_ and _Don Juan_. So such delusions can be creative.
Best wishes
Matthew
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