> Unconscious or absentminded theft remains a problem. I recall Hugh
> Macdiarmid
> confronted with the mystery of how sentences from a TLS article turned up
> in a
> poem of his unacknowledged.
>
> Max
Are you referring to the brouhaha over Macdiarmid's poem, "Perfect", Max?
That was (partly) fought out in the letters column of the TLS, but turned on
a lift from a short story by a Welsh writer whose name I can't recall
offhand.
The entire saga is heavily involuted and really quite incredibly funny.
Robin
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