Blotted LinesCowinner of the MLA Prize for a First Book Blotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative processthe idea that William Shakespeare "never blotted out line"to argue that by studying how early modern writers faced the challenges of writing poetry, instructors today can empower their students' approaches to critical writing. Adhaar Noor Desai offers deeply researched accounts of how poetic labor intersected with early modern