Note 2 — Front matter

See, for example, W. H. Auden’s “Academic Graffiti,” in Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelsohn (London: Faber and Faber, 1976), 510-18. Such a verse as the following is more clever than most graffiti, but like ordinary graffiti it remains essentially “unpoetic”: “Lord Byron / Once succumbed to a Siren. / His flesh was weak, / Hers Greek.”