Ed T. I have a notion that great poets may be best described by neuro science and brain anatomy than by concepts of Romanticism.

In this age of computers even severe dyslexics like myself, whose angular gyrus brain structures harbor visual concepts rather than words and language can participate in subjects like poetry and literature, if only by translation.

Poetry came easy to me but few other forms of writing when I was young.

I revel in the mastery of language by many who grace these pages but only as fan and not a payer.

While my original name was Donuel Webster, an orator I will never be, unless I first write my thoughts and read them. But poetry allows my wiring to access pictures and association in a relative unique manner that I too don't completely understand.

I once wrote a perfect sonnet called father and son without realizing it was a sonnet form in proper lines and syllables. This phenomena is not just a monkey with a typewriter but gives evidence to an unconscious editor that seems to function while in a state of hypnotic consciousness. At least for me despite my language deficits and what some may inappropriately call a learning disability.

This possibly is what some 19th century poets experienced but I don't have any evidence. That readers are not erudite as a whole is something I wholeheartedly agree.