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'''Automatic poetry''' is [[poetry]] written using the [[surrealist automatism|automatic method of surrealism]].
'''Automatic poetry''' is [[poetry]] written using the [[surrealist automatism|automatic method of surrealism]].

One of the oddest uses of automatic writing by a great writer was that of W.B. Yeats. His wife, a spiritualist and barely literate, practiced it, and Yeats put large chunks of it into his long poem, A Vision.

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Automatic poetry is poetry written using the automatic method of surrealism.

One of the oddest uses of automatic writing by a great writer was that of W.B. Yeats. His wife, a spiritualist and barely literate, practiced it, and Yeats put large chunks of it into his long poem, A Vision.