I entirely agree about the idiosyncrasy - in fact, it's more or less what I meant by my last sentence. But while we may any of us have a soft spot for, say, the wrenched rhymes of Victorian hymns, to suggest that 'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis' could deserve inclusion in a list of even the best 1000 poetry books of the century in all languages seems to me preposterous.
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