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Ode to a laureate.(John Keats replies to biography by Andrew Motion)(Brief Article)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19990522
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Andrew Motion, appointed this week to the post of poet laureate, published a biography of Keats last year. Keats now replies:

To sing on high of domes and princes royal, Now Motion climbs the dais and takes his wreath; I wish him luck, he shall not want for toil: A wretched burden Blair did him bequeath. For all who live will scrutinise his muse And tease some sport from his less gainly rhymes. But pity? No. What is this man to me? He did dissect my life and watch my times As if I were a frog, and not some man of verse. He writes quite well, they say; but not so well as me.

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