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Reading the correspondence between the two poets and ugh the perpetual embarrassment of these nerds is exhausting. "I am shocked to hear from you. I went today to a wood. I thought of me. I thought of you. I thought of god. I thought of a dog. Oh but I fear I embarrass myself! I trifle so! Tell me, tell me, l am but not such a fool!" Tell you both to chill the fuck out.

“I wanted to be a poet, and a poem. But now I am neither, but the mistress of a very small household …. It may that this is the desire of all reading women, but not reading men …. There, now I’m crying.” The plight of the manic pixie dream girl.

The way the post-feminist male scholars assume the 19th century male poet must have visited prostitutes, and that all prostitutes are dirty temptresses, during his long courtship of the once-fair, now past-her-prime spinster—and how the poet actually supported suffrage and argued against projecting political allegories onto female romantic interests from Greek epics, seeing them as full people…AJ, you’re good.

I see people don’t like the poetry. I rather like the poetry as it gives additional insight into the internal workings of the authors, long dead, but I was listening to this around midnight, and yeah, I fell asleep like four times.

AS Bryant coming through with chapters from Cristobal’s fairy tales.

Literally aching to find a copy of cristobel’s fairy tales and blanche’s illustrations. But I can’t. They’re not real.