Guilty of inappropriate attitude in a poem? Write another one to recant. From the Greek. The first recorded palinode was by Stesichorus in the seventh century BC. In it he recanted an earlier poem which blamed Helen of Troy for the Trojan War.
These days Stesichorus would be 'called out' for royal misogyny and made to twitter-grovel before the Princess of Troy. The face that launched a thousand ships will always be with us! PROBLEMS OF PHRASING? PETER THE PROOFER CAN TURN ANYTHING INTO ENGLISH, EVEN GERMAN!
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