Re: Shakespeare, Donne, and the Venus and Adonis stanza

George J. Dance wrote:
I had an interesting conversation this morning with my "trusted source"
for poetry, which I'll introduce: X's AI, Grok. What happened was:
 I was adding a poem to PPB which uses the Venus and Adonis stanza, and I
noticed that my Penny's Poetry Pages wiki article on the stanza (which
I'd written years ago) claimed that Donne's poem "The Expiration" used
the stanza before Shakespeare did. That looked wrong to me, so (rather
than search for the information myself) I asked Grok, let him do the
searching, and spent a fun half-hour discussing it with him. The bottom
line was that I changed only one line in the wiki (to read that Donne
"possibly" wrote his poem before Shakespeare published his). but the
conversation was worth it. Here's a link to it (which I hope stays up):
 https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1903089111889588654
 I recommend that those interested in scholarship use Grok, who's a great
source of information (though he can be wrong too). X is free to use
(though I pay $8 a month for a blue check just to support X, a site I
admire).