Are the best poets good listeners? It seems so. Think of T.S. Eliot in 1920s London and the kieen attention to the voices around him he needed to write "The Waste Land". Or think of Thomas Hardy, whose poetry is also alive with many voices other than his own . . .
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The Manhattan Review, Vo. 16, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2014-15
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The Manhattan Review, Vo. 16, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2014-15
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