Poetry is no Alchemist

[heslopian]

Should "auteur" be capitalised?
I was using it as an ideal, or a title, so I thought it should be capped.
Would you not?

I'm not sure I'd think the reader would guess that that's how I'm using the word, but I may be judging everyone by myself.

I might should use parentheses instead of the em dashes.
Nor can poetry transmogrify the Auteur
who with bland nib of it did writ
(when with palsied brain he did conceive)
change from the dullard into the sharpest wit.

Does that work better for you?

That's perfect. I like the line so I don't think it should be cut.