ouse”. How would I like to be remembered? With a straight face, I said | would like to be thought the best composer since Mahler, the best poet since Masefield, and the best economist since John Stuart Mill. The interviewer looked startled. Was she talking instead to the successor of Don Quixote, Emperor No

poet, since that’s already a tad vainglorious. For better or verse, I’m a Jack of that trade too. The true poets in my pantheon begin with Keats and Masefield. I haven’t found a clear choice for third. There are awesome things in Milton, Blake, Coleridge, Tennyson, Emily, Houseman, Robinson, Dowson, Yeats a