I'm afraid I skimmed the article - my eyes aren't good on font that size - but it's nice to see Keats and Wordsworth, for instance resituated in the truth of their own voice, as opposed to RP, and it underlines the irony of the young Harrison's ignorant teacher's remark. There's good important work yet to be done, i think, on British poets through the centuries and their non-RP accents (matter and water rhyming in Worsdworth, for instance). Or as Henry Higgins puts it: "The minute he opens his mouth / He makes some other Englishman despise him."
Cheers,
John
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