To be honest, I'm not sure that even the best authors reject their own poor work. "The complete works of X" for any poet X is frequently full of, well, duds. It

To be honest, I'm not sure that even the best authors reject their own poor work. "The complete works of X" for any poet X is frequently full of, well, duds. It's other people who extract the best of X's output and popularize it.