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I was thinking more about the language and style of time periods. Not suggesting direct influence by any means. I mostly read 19th century into modernism so the floral, song-like language really stands out. I was unaware that the roots of Petrarchan sonnets predate almost all of my reading. 66 and still learning.

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Oh! Yes, we’ll John Keats is my favorite poet of all, after Homer and Shakespeare

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You’re in the deep end of the pool and apparently quite comfortably afloat.

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thanks

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Just started in on Horace Walpole. Am I wrong to think there’s a connection here in the lush descriptives?

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It depends what you have in mind with the word “connection” but I have never read any of his work

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