Jon Corelis wrote:
> P.S. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember reading
> that Donne and Marvell, among many other notable poets, never published a
> line of verse in their lives. (I'm not sure if this applies to their Latin
> verses though -- were things like that also circulated mostly in manuscript?)
>
I'm not going to correct you, Jon:-). Another of my day jobs came to an
end last Tuesday, someone suggested to me in blessed naivete that I
write poetry for money. <pause> The doctor said the stomach hemorrhage
I got from laughing until I vomited was potentially fatal, but would
have been less cosmetically damaging than laughing my ass off.
Ken
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