Erica McAlpine

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The Poet's Mistake Erica McAlpine
What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry—and about how we read
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Erica McAlpine on The Poet’s Mistake Keats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth’s lakes. Poetry—even by the greats—is rife with mistakes. Read More