<p>Understanding things (poems, songs, etc.) more deeply than their creators as an incentive for rewriting.  How poets rewrite their precursors.  Example: Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Dickinson's "I died for Beauty."</p>

Understanding things (poems, songs, etc.) more deeply than their creators as an incentive for rewriting. How poets rewrite their precursors. Example: Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Dickinson's "I died for Beauty."

<p>Understanding things (poems, songs, etc.) more deeply than their creators as an incentive for rewriting.&nbsp; How poets rewrite their precursors.&nbsp; Example: Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Dickinson's "I died for Beauty."</p>

Poetry A Basic Course episode 21: Beauty and truth in Dickinson and Keats

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