It's far less trouble for know-it-alls to skip the endnotes than it is for know-nothings like me to try to reconstruct omitted information...especially when poets don't even provide enough keywords for us to be able to Google things.
Let's say that a poet is using (or, more frustrating still, altering beyond recognition) a rarely-used poetic form. How the hell am I supposed to look up a form whose name I don't even know?
It's a Catch-22: in order to Google it, you have to already know it...in which case you don't need to Google it.
Patronize me. Please.
Last edited by Julie Steiner; 11-01-2010 at 06:14 PM.
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