When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
One is always nearer by not keeping still.
Many of my poems are not sexual.
I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.