Talk:Had I but known

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[edit] HIBK is mostly about Golden Age mysteries

I've removed the reference to Lovecraft, since I'm reasonably familiar with his work and wouldn't exactly call him a primary example of this form of construction. I've only ever heard the HIBK tag applied to female Golden Age mystery writers and the Nash poem seems to bear that out. Does anyone have this Nash poem available such that they could fill in the last two lines -- which, by my poor memory, are approximately "Does anyone wish to buy a mystery which I am sorry to say I did not rent, but owns? I wouldn't have bought it had I but known it was full of had I but knowns." I think that would be an appropriate way of ending off this article. Accounting4Taste 23:37, 13 August 2007 (UTC)