Have been spending a lot of time the last few days with an old (but not too old) Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, 1250-1950 (ed. Helen Gardner), and a study of same period by Douglas Bush (English Poetry, publ. the year I was born, 1952).

Absorbing, humbling, curious. Sort of like sortes virgilianae or throwing the I Ching (dim memories of earlier readings).