What the Poets Could Have Been | Historical Context
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“What the Poets Could Have Been” was not published prior to its inclusion in This Country of Mothers, which was published in April 2001. Although the exact date of composition is unknown, it seems reasonable that the poem was probably composed late in the twentieth century, at some point close to its publication date. Baggott was readying her first collection of poems for publication against a backdrop of social, economic, and technological change.
The late twentieth century was a period of economic boom in the United...
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