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Subject: Re: Shakespeare, Donne, and the Venus and Adonis stanza
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> George J. Dance wrote:
> I had an interesting conversation this morning with my "trusted source"
> for poetry, which I'll introduce: X's AI, Grok. What happened was:
> 
> I was adding a poem to PPB which uses the Venus and Adonis stanza, and I
> noticed that my Penny's Poetry Pages wiki article on the stanza (which
> I'd written years ago) claimed that Donne's poem "The Expiration" used
> the stanza before Shakespeare did. That looked wrong to me, so (rather
> than search for the information myself) I asked Grok, let him do the
> searching, and spent a fun half-hour discussing it with him. The bottom
> line was that I changed only one line in the wiki (to read that Donne
> "possibly" wrote his poem before Shakespeare published his). but the
> conversation was worth it. Here's a link to it (which I hope stays up):
> 
> https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1903089111889588654
> 
> I recommend that those interested in scholarship use Grok, who's a great
> source of information (though he can be wrong too). X is free to use
> (though I pay $8 a month for a blue check just to support X, a site I
> admire).



Interesting read.  Thanks George! 


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