Tuesday, July 3, 2007

The Dyer's Hand

Much as I loathe the typewriter, I must admit that it is a help in self-criticism. Typescript is so impersonal and hideous to look at, if I type out a poem, I immediately see defects which I missed when I looked through it in manuscript.


The Dyer's Hand, W.H. Auden
1962

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