...one of his poems but in a letter about one of them, probably Milton, to Thomas Butts, 6 July 1803: "I may praise it, since I dare not pretend to be any...other than the Secretary the Authors are in Eternity" (Ellis-Yeats i: 87; Erdman, 730). 12,. Yeats tells this anecdote again in "The Tragic Generation" section...