Keats or Shelley

Maureen Duffy, That’s How it Was (1962).

Is Keats ”greater“ than Shelley? I‘ll quote myself from a previous post:

As T.S. Eliot said in “East Coker” about the work of the writer, “there is no competition.” Or as the poet William Bronk said, in response to a survey asking for the ten best books of American poetry published since 1945, “Don’t ask me. I believe the arts are not competitive.”

But there‘s nothing wrong with having favorite writers.

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