I HAVE seen it stated that, when Tennyson’s Princess was published in the United States, two generations ago, it was the best-selling book in the country, and that Patmore’s The Angel in the House, ...

You don’t have to know how to spell to write poetry. You can be rather loose in your syntax as far as I am concerned. You don’t have to know how to punctuate at all. Poe has nothing but dashes in his ...