Dear All,
Two other older poets that need to be mentioned here are William
Wordsworth and William Langland. Numerical age doesn't matter. Both
revised their magna opera repeatedly, as we know because the versions
are extant; and in the process both are said to have clarified their
meaning but also diluted their vividness: "TWo voices hast thou, one is
of the deep / And one is of an old half-witted sheep / That bleats
articulate monotony / And indicates that 2 and one are 3/ And
Wordsworth, both are thine." Can't remember who wrote that,LEigh Hunt?
Thomas Love Peacock? obviously a younger poet.
Carol
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