[New-Poetry] What I witnessed

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 7/2/2008 11:48:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
chris.lott at gmail.com writes: 
> Anyway, this gets right to the heart of the matter that will never be
> resolved. The "is" and "was" are the critical terms... and I'm sure
> the attackers of Keats were no more open to being persuaded than we
> who don't think Angelou is much of a poet are-- and they would
> likewise be just as shocked to find out they were "wrong" as we would
> be if we could last 100 or so more years to check...
> 
> c
History has treated lots of popular poets pretty badly--Shenstone, Cowley, 
Hunt, Amy Lowell et al.  And sometimes the reverse happens as well.  Keats 
wasn't without his champions, though.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=7wDODci8tLYC&
dq=keats+critical+heritage&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=E3rpF5INjD&
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