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Originally Posted by Janice D. Soderling View Post

As regards the Achilles' shield, I don't know if there was a real one or not, and neither do you. It is possible that an actual shield fitting that description once existed, the description of which entered oral tradition and finally the written poem.
If you say so. I still don't really understand the locking of the other thread, but I don't care that much, and the subject is tedious.

Why don't we get back to posting examples of the genre? How about "An Arundel Tomb," has anybody mentioned that one yet? A quick scan of Gregory's list does not reveal it. Here's a link with Larkin's reading.

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