Famous Misprint Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Misprint poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous misprint poems. These examples illustrate what a famous misprint poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...les morn of light.
Note: 6 content] Manuscript reads concent as does the Second
Edition; so that content is probably a misprint....Read more of this...
by
Milton, John
...A misprint in a newspaper reported: ‘Auden stepped from the train and was greeted by a small but enthusiastic crow.’
‘Hmm,’ Auden thought when first he saw
the bird, as train came to a stop,
‘I’ll make this image mine before
some Yorkshire upstart snaps it up.’
He drew a notebook from his mac’,
unclipped a biro from his tweed,
stared at the crow, the crow st...Read more of this...
by
Lindley, John
...Man-Moth: Newspaper misprint for "mammoth."
Here, above,
cracks in the buldings are filled with battered moonlight.
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
It lies at his feet like a circle for a doll to stand on,
and he makes an inverted pin, the point magnetized to the moon.
He does not see the moon; he observes only her vast properties,
feeling the ***** light o...Read more of this...
by
Bishop, Elizabeth
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