Glenn Everett (geverett@utm.edu) from fmc.utm.edu at 10/07/96 02:24PM
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:37:16
Sender: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
From: "Avery F. Gaskins"

An article in The London Review of Books (19 September '96, p. 20) quotes Thackeray as saying "the characters once created lead me, and I follow where they direct." I have always felt, rightly or wrongly, that is the sort of thing Keats had in mind when he said that a poet has no identity.

Avery Gaskins