Fair enough, Mark. I'm not sure any poem that's worth anything is universally loved. Every great poem I can think of has detractors, even prominent ones. But perhaps there's no such thing as the platonic, universally beloved work in the first place.
For instance, Voltaire, Dryden, and George Bernard Shaw all had serious issues with Shakespeare, Dryden going so far as to revise and recast the originals at times to "improve" them.
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