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FOR BETTER OR VERSE `You have to agree: William Wordsworth was responsible for some of our greatest poetry, even if he didn't write most of it himself'

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20030213
Author:MILES KINGTON

Today I want to talk about poetry. Unusual, I admit. Nobody normally talks about poetry, unless they are paid to. (When was the last time you were in a conversation about poetry? When was the last time someone quoted some at you? Have you ever met someone who had any modern poetry off by heart?)

And yet poetry is deep in all our psyches. We actually talk about poetry as if it were a deeply admirable thing. "There's poetry in the way she walks," we say. Or: "It was sheer poetry," we say, to describe some beautiful event or movement. We don't say that anything is sheer prose. Say that there is ...

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