Finnegan I'm sure you're right. I've read far more Stevens than Williams, though am starting to get into the latter more. It'll take time. I liked your 'Stevens wrote in his introduction to the first WCW Collected (or Selected) that he found Williams to be a "romantic poet" because he tended to dwell and to fuss too much about the real world' even if it is a paraphrase. Fussing too much about the real (or the Real) indeed! Alan. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%