Transitional Poem

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Transitional Poem

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Hogarth Living Poets, First Series, no. 9.

Long poem about all sorts of trivial things. Rife with classical references that serve mostly to obliquely invoke myths while debunking them. For example 'Once I was Cicero, though pedant fate /Now bids me learn the grammar of my days.'