The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete and move to Wikisource, here. NawlinWiki 18:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From Retrospection (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

This articles content is minimal- it is basically a reprint of the poem (which is what Wikisource is for) some background details, some talk of a metaphor at the start, and a list of themes. I don't think there really is much that can be said on the subject. Despite the fact it is the only one of her poems mentioned on Charlotte Brontë's article, it doesn't appear to be one of the more notable- it doesn't get mentioned much. I am not going to say it doesn't exist, there are a few web references, but not many. Delete. J Milburn 18:18, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Reluctant delete - Given time I probably could write a sourced-and-referenced wikipedia-valid article on From Retrospection - one of the earliest published works to not only evoke an elaborately worked out fantasy world without ever describing it but to implicitly compare it to the real world (a mainstay of 20th century writing, from The Hobbit to Comfortably Numb) - but Wikipedia isn't the place for an article consisting purely of a reprint of the poem itself and a couple of lines of literary criticism - iridescenti (talk to me!) 21:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, WjBscribe 00:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Transwiki to Wikisource because they don't have a copy of the poem. Since there's not much else in the article except some background information, my instinct is to delete, but I don't feel strongly about it. At any rate, the article should not contain the full text of the poem; that should be linked to from elsewhere, as is common for such things. YechielMan 01:01, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.