Just skimming through the list on my way to a meeting and found ref. to one
of my favorite poets! Thank you! I've slipped the Penguin selected in my
pocket and will have something to smile about during what promises to be
seven hours' worth of hair splitting in Japanese. Perhaps we could open a
William Barnes thread? Not only was he a remarkable poet, but (according
to everything I've read) a genuinely kind man. Has anyone read the
biography of Barnes written by--I believe--his daughter? He was an
autodidact and a polymath and outlived all those mad bad poet types by many
a year. Jesse
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