From: David E. Latane <[log in to unmask]>
> Oddly enough, Palgrave should have done much better. His beloved maternal
> Grandpa was one of Blake's patrons and he went off to Oxford in the 1840s
> with an original WB or two. While more people knew Blake's engravings than
> poetry, he was known not only by STC but also lamb, Crabb Robinson, etc.
> The pre-raphs picked him up (Gilchrist bio--Swinburne critical book in the
> 1860s. But you're right that the Yeats-Ellis edition was the turning
> point, though some people did care before then.
David:
You're +much+ faster than me on this -- best I could do would be Palgrave
lickspittaling Tennyson over The Golden Anthology.
But ....
Ignored Ladies (other than The Blessed Emily, obviously) Lady Mary and Anne
Bradstreet ... huh?
An' shouldn't we say Ellis-Yeats (prioritizing scholars over potes) ... ??
But really/truly
Ugh-Oh ...
Robin
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