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Re:  Could Hill have got "the English Limper" from reading WCW?

"I am deeply grateful to Mr. Geoffrey Hill for being such a conscientious and inspiring supervisor of my PhD thesis on Paterson at the University of Leeds, England.  This book has benefitted immeasurably from his countless invaluable suggestions and rigorous standards."

-- Margaret Glynne Lloyd, from the acknowledgements to William Carlos Williams's Paterson: A Critical Reappraisal (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 1980)