Paul, you are quite right about the jewels. Rochester is perhaps the nastiest poet I can think of, I mean as a human being. Good poems though. We all know Ben Jonson was a murderer. Wasn't Villon one as well? Great poems though in both cases.
I think the schoolgirls were over age. I think that's the point. I mean Larkin et al had a considerable thing about breasts. Children as a rule... well you catch my drift.
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