Stevie Smith's poem "Thoughts About the Person from Porlock" begins as a gentle ribbing of Coleridge and ends in a meditation on loneliness, creativity, and depression. Vincent Starrett, Persons from Porlock & Other Interruptions (1938) "The Person from Porlock" is a science fiction story by Raymond F. Jones published in Astounding magazine in 1947. Louis MacNeice, Persons from Porlock, and other plays for radio (1969) The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole; the diarist writes "I woke with an epic poem thundering inside my head...