Poets And Lyricists Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-02 · 10 entries checked · 2 flagged · 4 issues confirmed · 2 corrected · 2 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Paul Verlaine — Verlaine was convicted of wounding Rimbaud with a revolver, not battery.

Paul Verlaine — The entry implies that Jadis et naguère and Parallèlement were composed during his prison sentence, but only Sagesse was substantially composed in prison; the others were written and published later.

Philip Larkin — Larkin earned a First in English in 1943, not a Double First.

Philip Larkin — The group at Oxford including Kingsley Amis, John Wain, and others was informally called 'The Seven', not 'never formally called The Seven'.

Open data

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