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I did try the google egosearch, spurred by Peter's adventure. "Mark Weiss Poetry" yielded nothing, Mark Weiss poem yielded two, plain old Mark Weiss yielded a lot more, among the practitioners of professions that would have made my father happier. Mark At 11:13 PM 2/26/2001 +0000, Peter Howard wrote: >On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Peter Howard wrote... > >>I thought I'd try the experiment with my >>own, but too many people share my name. I tried adding "poetry" as an >>additional search criterion >... > >After posting this, I thought it might be interesting to try it with >some other names. The results were sometimes surprising. In all cases, I >entered the poet's name, in the form I know it best, in quotation marks, >followed by the word 'poetry'. Unlike some search engines, Google >returns results only where all search criteria are met. Full stops >(periods) don't seem to matter. Thus: > >"J.H. Prynne" poetry > >returns the same set of links as > >"JH Prynne" poetry > >Naturally, I tried out some poets on this list. But I won't list them >here. If you want to know, you can try the experiment yourself. > >William Shakespeare - 61100 >T.S. Eliot - 42000 >Emily Dickinson - 38300 >Allen Ginsberg - 11800 >John Donne - 10200 >Robert Browning - 6780 >Les Murray - 1180 >Carol Ann Duffy - 961 >Roger McGough - 735 >Wendy Cope - 409 >JH Prynne - 209 >Pam Ayres - 150 >Sophie Hannah - 102 >Patience Strong - 31 > > >-- >Peter > >http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/ > >