Sunday 18 December 2011

About Last Week's Poem of the Week

Apparently, much later in his life, when he was being lionised by his many fans, Robert Browning would often be asked about the meaning of last week's Poem of the Week (Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came). 

Apocryphally, or so the story goes, he would answer: "When I wrote that poem, only God and I knew what it meant.  Now, God only knows..."

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