Poets' And Writers' Spelling Mistakes |
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Spelling mistakes (and a few punctuation mistakes) by some famous poets and novelists, taken mostly from the manuscripts of their poems. |
Emily Dickinson |
words: extasy extatic boquet Febuary nescessity nescessary unannointed teazing bretheren independant boddice shily witheld |
Ezra Pound |
words: tarrif diarhoa damd supercedes indespensible sustinence devines (vb) assylum wierd assininities |
William Wordsworth |
words: eughtrees questined craggs
vullgar untill lillies pennyless impressd fellt receved anixious plungd th
(the) whith (with) strage (strange) |
John Milton |
words: persues persuers cheife cheifly scituation raign (reign) beleive woomb Egipt eys (eyes) Iland waight |
Virginia Woolf |
words: pannelled, busyness (?), naiv (?) |
Ernest Hemingway | words: archiologist, condences, proffessional, ungry, mistyque, useing, Hawaia, loseing |
Dylan Thomas | words:dissilusion, seperate, disspoint, propoganda |
W.B. Yeats | words: proffesrshp, origonal, descreetly, immitation, peculearitys, beleive, salid, seperate, litteracy |
Keats Ode To Autumn | Season of Mists and mellow fruitfulness |
Many of these are exactly the same mistakes as on today's web pages. On the other hand some of them may have been deliberate choices by the writers - Milton for example had strong views on spelling - or may have been a spelling variant at the time the poet was writing. |