Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen a lot of them will.
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.