ISBN-13: 9780691203492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.
ISBN-13: 9780691203492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.
What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes. Poetry-even by the greats-is rife with mistakes. In The Poet's Mistake, critic and poet Erica McAlpine gathers together for the first time numerou