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of challenging the reputation of the Sonnets, testing which are still "useful". [Don] Paterson believes poets are specially equipped to tell good poems from bad: they have "a special attunement to the weight and texture of language". But the idea that poets make the best critics has long been discredited. For every Dryden there are two bad poet-critics.

from The Times Literary Supplement: Don Paterson's Shakespeare

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