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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20061223
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A great poet's brushes with the world's first consumer boycott

OETS and sweetness go together, or so the Greeks thought. Homer, lying in his cradle, was brushed on his lips by honey bees; Plato saw poets themselves as bees gathering nectar in the garden of the Muses. So it is hardly surprising that Percy Bysshe Shelley, lover of both Homer and Plato and an extraordinary poet in his own right, had a very sweet tooth indeed.

He loved dried plums, figs, apples and oranges. He doted on gingerbread and cakes. If you turned out the pockets of his black denim jacket (a jacket ...

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