You Cannot Be Serious, # 36

It’s unclear whether Daniel Radcliffe is the originator of the mangle reproduced here, but the editors should have checked both the text and the index of first lines more carefully prior to publication. Unfortunately their failure is not confined to this book, but has been widely reproduced, so that Tony Harrison is now misrepresented as a grammatical incompetent and/or appalling proofreader all over the Internet:

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them, ed. by Anthony Holden and Ben Holden (New York: SImon & Schuster, 2014), p. 169. Link: Google Books

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, p. 301

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