Reginald Ashworth-Vane stopped writing poetry because he realized,...

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Reginald Ashworth-Vane stopped writing poetry because he realized, with the kind of certainty that only a man of his particular temperament can achieve, that his poetry was terrible.

He showed it to everyone. To the editors of The Athenaeum, who returned it with a note that was polite enough to be cruel: "Mr. Ashworth-Vane, your enthusiasm is commendable, but your execution is — how shall we say — unrefined." To Lord Wilde's circle, who found him "amateurish in the most sincere way," which was Reginald's way of understanding the phrase "your work is bad and nobody cares."...

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