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>(Apropos of the Clare thread, may I speak up for readers who don't agree
>that the reproduction of unpunctuated, misspelled texts of Clare's straight
>from manuscript serve his work best? In any case there has been work
>published recently arguing that Clare in fact wouldn't have understood the
>obsession with manuscript reproduction, since he actually expected his
>publishers to punctuate & tidy up his poems for publication.)
>
And Shelley, as Alan says. And I sense the Ango-American brickbats sailing
my way as I wonder whether to say it, but--- the same clearly goes for
Emily Dickinson.
It's a whole poetry attitude: "One letter is omitted from my name and I
cease to exist" (Anne-Marie Albiach). Everyone knows it's not true. It's
been going on for ages and I'm bored to death by it.
/PR
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