tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post7729583986224340448..comments2024-03-28T22:33:29.066-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: BETTER LATE THAN NEVERRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-14107941543194684712015-01-19T16:03:05.823-05:002015-01-19T16:03:05.823-05:00My late father-in-law was a professor of English a...My late father-in-law was a professor of English at the University of Washington. I took a number of poetry courses from him, and he was my advisor for my senior thesis in the honors program.<br /><br />Every year he led the procession of the College of Arts and Sciences at graduation. It amused him to put the poets at the front of the procession (I was one of them). "Poets," he said, quoting Shelley in "A Defense of Poetry," "are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."Ludwig Richterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145442092958521609noreply@blogger.com