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Show Where Do Poets Compose" Jlut do poets ever wrlto In gnnJ-ms? Swift, who wns by way of being a poet, built himself a garden seat at Moor park when ho served Sir Wll-Hum Wll-Hum Temple, but I don't know thnt he wrote poetry there. Rotlior. it was a placo for reading. Pope. In his pros-porous pros-porous days, wrote at Twickenham, with tho sound of his artificial wnter-fall wnter-fall In his ears, and ho walked to tako the air In his grotto along tho Thnmes. But do poets really wander beneath the moon to think their verses? Do they composo "on ' Bummer evo by haunted stream"? 1 doubt whether Gray conceived his "Elegy" an nctu-al nctu-al graveyard I smell oil. One need not "jo tho thing described upon tho very moment. Shelley wrote of moun-Jains, moun-Jains, the awful range of Caucasus, but his eye at the tlmo looked on gunny Italy. Iliben wrote of the north when living In the south. When Bunynn .wrote of the ileleetublo mountains he wts snug Inside a Jnll.-riiiirlca S Drgofcs In the Ceutury Muwzbta |