July 15, 2005

Romantic Poetry Meets 21st-Century Technology

By BROCK READ

With wikis, the new Web tool, everybody's an editor and a critic

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Mark Phillipson held a few part-time jobs with Silicon Valley start-ups before he became a visiting assistant professor of English at Bowdoin College. But it was dumb luck, not technological savvy,