How It Strikes a Contemporary Comments

There are about 70 lines missing after 'And reads them in his bedroom of a night'. Even so, it is a very good dramatic monologue, in my opinion. Valladolid is a Spanish town, where the poet (and the speaker) lived. Essentially, I think the poem sets out the role of the poet in those times, 'A man of mark, to know next time you saw.' The speaker knows quite a lot about the poet, based on what he has seen: he does not know everything. M. Walker.

A very inspiring poem to read