 And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 217von Alexander Pope - 1807 - 408 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...that Wordsworth didn't equally craft and recraft). "Why did I write?" he asks in Epistle to Arbuthnot; "As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, I lisp'd in Numbers, for the Numbers came" (125, 127-8). And as for spontaneous overflow: "The things that I have written fastest have always... | |
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