Blake, Dante, Virgil and Tennyson

Talking it over, we agreed that Blake was no good because he learnt

Italian at 60 in order to study Dante, and we knew Dante was no good

because he was so fond of Virgil, and Virgil was no good because Tennyson

ran him, and as for Tennyson—well, Tennyson goes without saying.

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