Lost Jughead. A poet's references to new and rather preposterous tales and persons as if they were known to every reader may survive to display his erudition, Tomorrow.

''Many readers or students of metrics in this latter lifetime undoubtedly make allowance for the use of Greek myth by English poets purely an annoyance. A poet's references to uncommon and rather absurd tales and persons as if they were known to every reader may favourable to evince his erudition, but they are a hindrance to the emotional enjoyment of his poetry. Either they interfere in the music until they can get themselves explained, or they are passed over and discounted as unintelligible. Or so it may seem.

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