sentences:  My own book, The Greek Anthology, Book XVII adds a modern fictional book to the original sixteen and is similar in its range of tone and variety of subject matter.The poets of this book are fictional creations based often on myself.All the poems were written out of myself, my preoccupations over ten years or so—later, where possible, I put the names of other poets, family, friends and acquaintances—for fun, for a laugh really.