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Christopher Childers's avatar

In three months everyone on Substack is going to be reading Gregorovius.

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A.F. Harrold's avatar

Maybe to set beside William Cowper's sofa-inspired epic, 'The Task'.

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Adam Roberts's avatar

A great poem! Once greatly esteemed and widely read, now not.

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A.F. Harrold's avatar

And a fair warning to anyone who's tempted to say, 'Oh you're a poet, are you? Why not write me a poem about [random object in their eye-line]...' because they might just get what they ask for!

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Evets's avatar

Best of its kind

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DO's avatar

Maybe there is scope for a collaboration with ‘Piranesi’s Candelabrum’ - another new band…(probably)along with ‘double dust jacket’

https://images.ashmolean.org/asset/48520/

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Adam Roberts's avatar

That's a pretty fancy candelabrum!

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Ian Nebuchadnezzar Watson's avatar

The double dust jacket is to fool the British Library strippers.

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Adam Roberts's avatar

The least erotic strippers in London!

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