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Poetry is a horrible waste of time

Frances Wilson

  • Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Selected Poetry edited by Judith Higgens and Michael Bradshaw

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Frances Wilson is the author of Literary Seductions. She teaches at Reading University.

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