Tuesday, January 02, 2007

News at Eleven: In a review of the 1958 Collected Poems

(the book that famously sold in its hundreds of thousands), Philip Larkin commented: "I hereby offer to correct the proofs of [John] Betjeman's next book of poems for nothing, if that is the only way to protect them from such blemishes". (He cited the perpetuation of "Chirst" for "Christ" and "that I wanted" instead of "what I wanted".)

from The Guardian: Feeling his way to posterity

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