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...Connecticut College professor who recently discovered a handwritten William Wordsworth poem in the Houghton Library said Friday that he will not publish the work because of previous knowledge of the existence of the poem among academics...
Seng's decision not to publish the poem follows a letter from a Cornell English professor and editor of a series on Wordsworth "who said he had already handled and was aware of the poem," Seng explained...
Calling himself "a Shakespearean," Seng added that he will leave it up to the Cornell Wordsworth to include the poem in their series. "But the Cornell editors told me I could publish the poem if I wanted to," Seng said...
Seng had previously gotten written permission from Houghton to publish the poem. He would also have needed the approval of Wordsworth's trustees, a group of scholars and the poet's descendants, who govern scholarly access to the poet's works and his property in England...
...wrote at once that I had not asked for a debate nor for permission to publish the correspondence, but only for permission to quote from it in some articles I was writing. I wondered if his objection to reproduction of his letters included objection to quotations from them...