... mistake have tended to shift according to readers' own notions of propriety and its value, the broader question of how to distinguish error from poetic license is nearly as old as poetry itself. Aristotle poses it at length in the Poetics. The nub for Aristotle seems to lie in whether...

... Toomer Jean Hammer Langdon lexical errors children Shakespeare William Blackmur R P correction of errors revision accidents Hart Crane poetic license error Voyages mistake language poetry neologisms Harold Hart Crane might have been an excellent speller. A letter from the ten-year-old...