Robin:
>By extension, the ideal muse figure for a female poet would be a gay male.
Perhaps, but not necessarily. Atwood once wrote a very witty piece titled
'MacEwan's Muse' in which she used Graves against himself in demonstrating
how an erotic male other figured in Gwen MacEwan's poetry as muse figure...
Doug
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