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How far can you press a poet?
To the last limit and he'll not show it
And one step further and he's dead
And his death is upon your head.
Stevie Smith
A propos:
Letter from Byron to John Murray, 31 July 1821:
'Are you aware that Shelley has written an elegy on Keats - and accuses the Quarterly of killing him? -
Who killed John Keats?
I, says the Quarterly
So savage & Tartarly
'Twas one of my feats -
Who shot the arrow?
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