Jonah’s link omits several of Blair’s poems, which have turned up in Terrapin UnBound, a short-lived University of Maryland literary mag. (Sorry, I can’t do links–too old technology). The short one beginning “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?/Thou are more lovely and more temperate” is really quite good, as are many passages of the longer one beginning “Of man’s first disobedience and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world…”
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Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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