Lines on the Island of Utopia by the Poet Laureate, Mr. Windbag Nonsenso’s Sister’s Son

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    …Utopian Poetry”; the second, “Lines on the Island of Utopia by the Poet Laureate, Mr. Windbag Nonsenso’s Sister’s Son,” is a brief satirical poem believed to be a gibe at John Skelton. The fictional speaker of this equivocally voiced poem claims descent from Plato’s Republic—itself a work of utopian…

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