Ah, I see Mallarme and I are of one mind. And probably the President of the Poetry Society, the excellent Roger McGough who should be made a knight. He could have that one they took off the banker.
It appears that foreign poets rate Poe higher than we do. Jorge Luis Borges was another fan. The same thing is true of Byron. We know Keats and Wordsworth are better but the foreigners rate Byron. AND for the wrong stuff.
I like Byron because he wrote 'Don Juan'.
Come all your lords of ladies intellectual
Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all?
What's not to like? Byron was henpecked by his Italian Countess who liked knitting. Not a lot of people know that.
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