"Whatever critics’ ambivalence, Benton wrote one of the bestselling poetry collections in America. Why had I never heard of him? Exposure doesn’t equal merit, of course, but these poems had resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers over the years and now struck a chord in me. I wanted to understand why."
Walter Benton’s romantic verse made him one of America’s most popular poets. Is he still worth reading? An interesting story by Kathleen Rooney.
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