Preface to the Third Edition |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Walt Whitman (1819--1892) |
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1 | (29) |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (14) |
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4 | (9) |
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13 | (5) |
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18 | (4) |
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I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing |
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22 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame |
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23 | (1) |
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd |
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23 | (7) |
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Emily Dickinson (1830--1886) |
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30 | (11) |
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49 (``I never lost as much but twice'') |
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32 | (1) |
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214 (``I taste a liquor never brewed---'') |
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33 | (1) |
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249 (``Wild Nights---Wild Nights!'') |
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33 | (1) |
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258 (``There's a certain Slant of light'') |
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34 | (1) |
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280 (``I felt a Funeral, in my Brain'') |
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34 | (1) |
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303 (``The Soul selects her own Society---'') |
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35 | (1) |
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328 (``A Bird came down the Walk---'') |
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35 | (1) |
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341 (``After great pain, a formal feeling comes---'') |
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36 | (1) |
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435 (``Much Madness is divinest Sense---'') |
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36 | (1) |
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465 (``I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---'') |
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36 | (1) |
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585 (``I like to see it lap the Miles---'') |
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37 | (1) |
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632 (``The Brain---is wider than the Sky---'') |
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38 | (1) |
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657 (``I dwell in Possibility---'') |
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38 | (1) |
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712 (``Because I could not stop for Death---'') |
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38 | (1) |
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754 (``My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---'') |
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39 | (1) |
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986 (``A narrow Fellow in the Grass'') |
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40 | (1) |
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1129 (``Tell all the Truth but tell it slant'') |
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40 | (1) |
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1732 (``My life closed twice before its close---'') |
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41 | (1) |
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41 | (22) |
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44 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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45 | (2) |
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45 | (1) |
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(``When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong'') |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (2) |
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The Convergence of the Twain |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (3) |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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In Time of `The Breaking of Nations' |
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59 | (1) |
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For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly |
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59 | (1) |
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I Looked Up from My Writing |
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60 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (1) |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889) |
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63 | (19) |
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66 | (1) |
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The Wreck of the Deutschland |
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67 | (9) |
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76 | (1) |
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[As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame] |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (1) |
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77 | (1) |
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78 | (1) |
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78 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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[I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day] |
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79 | (1) |
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[No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief] |
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80 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves |
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81 | (1) |
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[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend] |
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82 | (1) |
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A. E. Housman (1859--1936) |
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82 | (8) |
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[Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now] |
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84 | (1) |
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[When I Was One-and Twenty] |
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84 | (1) |
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To an Athlete Dying Young |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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[On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble] |
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87 | (1) |
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[With Rue My Heart Is Laden] |
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87 | (1) |
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[Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff] |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries |
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90 | (1) |
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[They Say My Verse Is Sad: No Wonder] |
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90 | (1) |
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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
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90 | (54) |
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To the Rose upon the Rood of Time |
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94 | (1) |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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94 | (1) |
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95 | (1) |
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95 | (1) |
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96 | (1) |
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To Ireland in the Coming Times |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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The Song of the Wandering Aengus |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (1) |
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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven |
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100 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (1) |
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The Fascination of What's Difficult |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (1) |
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In Memory of Major Robert Gregory |
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108 | (2) |
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (2) |
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To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee |
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114 | (1) |
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Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen |
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114 | (4) |
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118 | (1) |
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118 | (5) |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (2) |
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In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz |
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126 | (1) |
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A Dialogue of Self and Soul |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (1) |
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Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (2) |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (3) |
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141 | (1) |
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The Circus Animals' Desertion |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (1) |
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1930) |
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144 | (13) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (1) |
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Harp Song of the Dane Women |
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148 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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The Way through the Woods |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (6) |
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156 | (1) |
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Edgar Lee Masters (1868--1950) |
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157 | (5) |
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158 | (4) |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (1) |
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159 | (1) |
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160 | (1) |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) |
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162 | (9) |
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163 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (1) |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (1) |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (1) |
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) |
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171 | (5) |
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O Black and Unknown Bards |
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172 | (1) |
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173 | (1) |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (2) |
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Gertrude Stein (1874--1946) |
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176 | (22) |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (5) |
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180 | (1) |
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A carafe, that is a blind glass |
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180 | (1) |
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180 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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A little bit of a tumbler |
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181 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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186 | (8) |
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Idem the Same. A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson |
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194 | (3) |
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197 | (1) |
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197 | (1) |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (3) |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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200 | (1) |
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200 | (1) |
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200 | (1) |
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Robert Frost (1874--1963) |
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201 | (25) |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (3) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (1) |
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An Old Man's Winter Night |
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210 | (1) |
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210 | (1) |
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211 | (1) |
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211 | (2) |
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213 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
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214 | (1) |
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For Once, Then, Something |
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215 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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The Need of Being Versed in Country Things |
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216 | (1) |
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217 | (1) |
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Acquainted with the Night |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (2) |
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220 | (1) |
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Neither Out Far nor In Deep |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (1) |
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221 | (1) |
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222 | (1) |
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222 | (1) |
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223 | (1) |
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Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same |
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223 | (1) |
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224 | (1) |
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224 | (2) |
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Carl Sandburg (1878--1967) |
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226 | (4) |
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227 | (1) |
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228 | (1) |
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228 | (1) |
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228 | (1) |
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229 | (1) |
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229 | (1) |
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Edward Thomas (1878--1917) |
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230 | (5) |
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231 | (1) |
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231 | (1) |
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232 | (1) |
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232 | (1) |
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233 | (1) |
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233 | (1) |
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234 | (1) |
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Wallace Stevens (1879--1955) |
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235 | (33) |
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237 | (3) |
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Peter Quince at the Clavier |
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240 | (2) |
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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock |
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242 | (1) |
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243 | (1) |
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The Worms at Heaven's Gate |
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244 | (1) |
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
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244 | (2) |
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246 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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247 | (1) |
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247 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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The Idea of Order at Key West |
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249 | (1) |
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A Postcard from the Volcano |
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250 | (1) |
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The Man with the Blue Guitar |
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251 | (1) |
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(``The man bent over his guitar'') |
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251 | (1) |
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(``Poetry is the subject of the poem'') |
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251 | (1) |
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A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts |
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252 | (1) |
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252 | (1) |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (1) |
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255 | (1) |
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Notes toward a Supreme Fiction |
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256 | (2) |
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(``Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea'') |
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256 | (1) |
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(``On a blue island in a sky-wide water'') |
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256 | (1) |
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(``A lasting visage in a lasting bush'') |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (1) |
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258 | (2) |
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(``This is where the serpent lives, the bodiless.'') |
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258 | (1) |
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(``Farewell to an idea . . . A cabin stands'') |
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259 | (1) |
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(``Farewell to an idea . . . The mother's face'') |
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260 | (1) |
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260 | (1) |
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An Ordinary Evening in New Haven |
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261 | (1) |
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(``The last leaf that is going to fall has fallen.'') |
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261 | (1) |
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261 | (1) |
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261 | (1) |
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To an Old Philosopher in Rome |
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262 | (2) |
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The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain |
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264 | (1) |
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265 | (1) |
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The River of Rivers in Connecticut |
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265 | (1) |
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The Plain Sense of Things |
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266 | (1) |
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Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination |
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267 | (1) |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (15) |
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269 | (4) |
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269 | (1) |
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270 | (1) |
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(``We might have coupled'') |
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270 | (1) |
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(``Come to me There is something'') |
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270 | (1) |
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271 | (1) |
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(``Shedding our petty pruderies'') |
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271 | (1) |
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(``Evolution fall foul of'') |
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272 | (1) |
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273 | (1) |
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274 | (1) |
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Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose |
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275 | (6) |
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275 | (6) |
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281 | (1) |
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282 | (1) |
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William Carlos Williams (1883--1963) |
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283 | (35) |
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286 | (1) |
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286 | (2) |
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288 | (1) |
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Sympathetic Portrait of a Child |
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288 | (1) |
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289 | (1) |
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290 | (1) |
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The Widow's Lament in Springtime |
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290 | (1) |
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291 | (1) |
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291 | (1) |
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292 | (1) |
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293 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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The Last Words of My English Grandmother |
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299 | (1) |
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300 | (1) |
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Burning the Christmas Greens |
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300 | (2) |
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302 | (5) |
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302 | (2) |
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Book I. The Delineaments of the Giants |
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304 | (1) |
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From I (``Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls'') |
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304 | (3) |
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From III (``Thought clambers up'') |
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307 | (1) |
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307 | (3) |
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310 | (1) |
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus |
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310 | (1) |
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310 | (1) |
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Asphodel, That Greeny Flower |
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311 | (7) |
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311 | (7) |
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Elinor Wylie (1885--1928) |
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318 | (3) |
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318 | (2) |
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320 | (1) |
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320 | (1) |
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D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930) |
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321 | (24) |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (2) |
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326 | (1) |
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326 | (1) |
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327 | (1) |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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329 | (1) |
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329 | (2) |
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331 | (1) |
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331 | (2) |
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333 | (2) |
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335 | (3) |
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338 | (1) |
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338 | (1) |
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339 | (1) |
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Andraitx---Pomegranate Flowers |
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339 | (1) |
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340 | (1) |
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341 | (1) |
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341 | (1) |
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342 | (3) |
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345 | (42) |
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349 | (1) |
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350 | (1) |
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350 | (1) |
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351 | (1) |
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In a Station of the Metro |
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351 | (1) |
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The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
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352 | (1) |
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Lament of the Frontier Guard |
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353 | (1) |
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353 | (1) |
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354 | (12) |
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354 | (8) |
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362 | (4) |
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366 | (21) |
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I (``And then went down to the ship'') |
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368 | (2) |
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II (``Hang it all, Robert Browning'') |
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370 | (4) |
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VII (``Eleanor [she spoiled in a British climate]'') |
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374 | (4) |
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From XIV (``The slough of unamiable liars'') |
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378 | (1) |
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378 | (2) |
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LXXXI (``Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom'') |
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380 | (5) |
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385 | (2) |
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(``I have tried to write Paradise'') |
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387 | (1) |
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Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967) |
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387 | (6) |
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388 | (1) |
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389 | (1) |
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389 | (1) |
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390 | (1) |
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390 | (1) |
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Repression of War Experience |
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391 | (1) |
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392 | (1) |
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On Passing the New Menin Gate |
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392 | (1) |
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393 | (21) |
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395 | (1) |
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395 | (1) |
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395 | (1) |
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396 | (1) |
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396 | (1) |
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397 | (1) |
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398 | (1) |
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398 | (2) |
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400 | (1) |
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401 | (4) |
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[1] (``An incident here and there'') |
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401 | (1) |
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[4] (``There is a spell, for instance'') |
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402 | (2) |
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[6] (``In me [the worm] clearly'') |
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404 | (1) |
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[39] (``We have had too much consecration'') |
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405 | (1) |
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405 | (9) |
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[24] (``Every hour, every moment'') |
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405 | (1) |
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[25] (``. . . of the no need'') |
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406 | (1) |
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[26] (``One of us said, how odd'') |
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406 | (1) |
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[27] (``And yet in some very subtle way'') |
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407 | (1) |
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[28] (``I had been thinking of Gabriel'') |
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407 | (1) |
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[29] (``We have seen her'') |
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408 | (1) |
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[30] (``We see her hand in her lap'') |
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409 | (1) |
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[31] (``But none of these, none of these'') |
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410 | (1) |
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[36] (``Ah [you say], this is Holy Wisdom'') |
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410 | (1) |
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[37] (``This is a symbol of beauty [you continue]'') |
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411 | (1) |
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[38] (``O yes---you understand, I say'') |
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411 | (1) |
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[39] (``But nearer than Guardian Angel'') |
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412 | (1) |
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[40] (``This is no rune nor symbol'') |
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413 | (1) |
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[41] (``She carried a book, either to imply'') |
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413 | (1) |
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Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962) |
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414 | (6) |
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Shine, Perishing Republic |
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415 | (1) |
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416 | (1) |
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416 | (1) |
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417 | (1) |
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418 | (1) |
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418 | (1) |
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419 | (1) |
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420 | (1) |
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420 | (5) |
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Ballad of Hector in Hades |
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421 | (1) |
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422 | (1) |
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423 | (1) |
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424 | (1) |
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Edith Sitwell (1887--1964) |
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425 | (5) |
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426 | (2) |
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426 | (1) |
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427 | (1) |
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428 | (1) |
|
The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age |
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429 | (1) |
|
Marianne Moore (1887--1972) |
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430 | (25) |
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433 | (1) |
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433 | (1) |
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434 | (2) |
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436 | (1) |
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In the Days of Prismatic Colour |
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437 | (1) |
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438 | (1) |
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439 | (1) |
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440 | (1) |
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441 | (5) |
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446 | (1) |
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446 | (2) |
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448 | (3) |
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451 | (1) |
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452 | (1) |
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He ``Digesteth Harde Yron'' |
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453 | (2) |
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John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974) |
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455 | (5) |
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Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter |
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456 | (1) |
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457 | (1) |
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457 | (1) |
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458 | (1) |
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459 | (1) |
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460 | (35) |
|
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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463 | (3) |
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466 | (2) |
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468 | (1) |
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Sweeney among the Nightingales |
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469 | (1) |
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470 | (2) |
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472 | (15) |
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487 | (1) |
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488 | (7) |
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495 | (3) |
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496 | (1) |
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496 | (1) |
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497 | (1) |
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498 | (1) |
|
Claude McKay (1890--1948) |
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|
498 | (6) |
|
A Midnight Woman to the Bobby |
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500 | (1) |
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501 | (1) |
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501 | (1) |
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502 | (1) |
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502 | (1) |
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503 | (1) |
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503 | (1) |
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503 | (1) |
|
Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918) |
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|
504 | (5) |
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|
505 | (1) |
|
Break of Day in the Trenches |
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505 | (1) |
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506 | (1) |
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Returning, We Hear the Larks |
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|
506 | (1) |
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|
507 | (2) |
|
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950) |
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509 | (5) |
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|
510 | (1) |
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510 | (1) |
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511 | (1) |
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511 | (1) |
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[I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed] |
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|
512 | (1) |
|
[Gazing upon Him Now, Severe and Dead] |
|
|
512 | (1) |
|
[Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink] |
|
|
512 | (1) |
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|
513 | (1) |
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|
513 | (1) |
|
Archibald MacLeish (1892--1982) |
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|
514 | (3) |
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515 | (1) |
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516 | (1) |
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516 | (1) |
|
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892--1978) |
|
|
517 | (6) |
|
The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch |
|
|
519 | (1) |
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|
520 | (1) |
|
Cloudburst and Soaring Moon |
|
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520 | (1) |
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521 | (1) |
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|
521 | (1) |
|
Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries |
|
|
522 | (1) |
|
British Leftish Poetry, 1930--40 |
|
|
522 | (1) |
|
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918) |
|
|
523 | (12) |
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|
525 | (1) |
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|
525 | (1) |
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|
526 | (1) |
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527 | (1) |
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528 | (1) |
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529 | (1) |
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530 | (1) |
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531 | (1) |
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532 | (1) |
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|
532 | (2) |
|
|
534 | (1) |
|
Dorothy Parker (1893--1967) |
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|
535 | (2) |
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|
536 | (1) |
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|
536 | (1) |
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|
536 | (1) |
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|
537 | (1) |
|
|
537 | (1) |
|
Charles Reznikoff (1894--1976) |
|
|
537 | (8) |
|
[On Brooklyn Bridge I Saw a Man Drop Dead.] |
|
|
538 | (1) |
|
[The Shopgirls Leave Their Work] |
|
|
538 | (1) |
|
[I Walked through the Lonely Marsh] |
|
|
538 | (1) |
|
[It Had Long Been Dark, though Still an Hour Before Supper-Time.] |
|
|
539 | (1) |
|
[Walk about the Subway Station] |
|
|
539 | (1) |
|
|
540 | (1) |
|
|
540 | (1) |
|
|
540 | (2) |
|
|
542 | (1) |
|
From Early History of a Writer |
|
|
542 | (1) |
|
|
543 | (2) |
|
|
543 | (2) |
|
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962) |
|
|
545 | (11) |
|
|
546 | (1) |
|
|
547 | (1) |
|
|
547 | (1) |
|
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] |
|
|
548 | (1) |
|
[i was sitting in mcsorley's] |
|
|
549 | (1) |
|
[``next to of course god america i] |
|
|
550 | (1) |
|
|
550 | (1) |
|
[i sing of Olaf glad and big] |
|
|
551 | (1) |
|
|
552 | (1) |
|
|
552 | (1) |
|
[anyone lived in a pretty how town] |
|
|
553 | (1) |
|
[my father moved through dooms of love] |
|
|
554 | (2) |
|
[pity this busy monster,manunkind] |
|
|
556 | (1) |
|
|
556 | (6) |
|
|
558 | (1) |
|
|
558 | (1) |
|
|
559 | (1) |
|
|
559 | (1) |
|
|
560 | (1) |
|
|
560 | (1) |
|
|
561 | (1) |
|
Robert Graves (1895--1985) |
|
|
562 | (7) |
|
|
563 | (1) |
|
|
563 | (1) |
|
|
564 | (1) |
|
|
565 | (1) |
|
To Juan at the Winter Solstice |
|
|
566 | (1) |
|
|
567 | (1) |
|
|
568 | (1) |
|
|
569 | (11) |
|
|
570 | (5) |
|
Part 4. King Pellam's Launde (lines 1--41) |
|
|
570 | (2) |
|
Part 7. The Five Unmistakable Marks (lines 283--422) |
|
|
572 | (3) |
|
|
575 | (5) |
|
|
575 | (5) |
|
Austin Clarke (1896--1974) |
|
|
580 | (7) |
|
|
581 | (1) |
|
|
582 | (5) |
|
Louise Bogan (1897--1970) |
|
|
587 | (3) |
|
|
587 | (1) |
|
|
588 | (1) |
|
|
588 | (1) |
|
|
589 | (1) |
|
|
589 | (1) |
|
|
590 | (1) |
|
Melvin Tolson (1898--1966) |
|
|
590 | (14) |
|
|
592 | (12) |
|
|
592 | (2) |
|
|
594 | (4) |
|
|
598 | (2) |
|
|
600 | (4) |
|
|
604 | (45) |
|
|
607 | (1) |
|
|
607 | (1) |
|
|
608 | (1) |
|
|
609 | (1) |
|
|
609 | (4) |
|
|
613 | (34) |
|
|
647 | (1) |
|
|
647 | (2) |
|
|
649 | (6) |
|
|
649 | (1) |
|
Ode to the Confederate Dead |
|
|
650 | (2) |
|
|
652 | (3) |
|
Basil Bunting (1900--1985) |
|
|
655 | (6) |
|
On the Fly-Leaf of Pound's Cantos |
|
|
656 | (1) |
|
|
656 | (4) |
|
I (``Brag, sweet tenor bull'') |
|
|
656 | (4) |
|
What the Chairman Told Tom |
|
|
660 | (1) |
|
Yvor Winters (1900--1968) |
|
|
661 | (4) |
|
|
662 | (1) |
|
By the Road to the Air-Base |
|
|
663 | (1) |
|
|
663 | (2) |
|
Laura Riding (1901--1991) |
|
|
665 | (4) |
|
|
666 | (1) |
|
|
666 | (1) |
|
|
667 | (1) |
|
|
667 | (1) |
|
|
668 | (1) |
|
|
669 | (1) |
|
Sterling Brown (1901--1989) |
|
|
669 | (15) |
|
|
671 | (2) |
|
|
673 | (1) |
|
|
674 | (1) |
|
|
675 | (2) |
|
|
677 | (2) |
|
|
679 | (1) |
|
|
680 | (2) |
|
|
682 | (1) |
|
|
683 | (1) |
|
Langston Hughes (1902--1967) |
|
|
684 | (21) |
|
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
|
|
687 | (1) |
|
|
688 | (1) |
|
|
688 | (1) |
|
|
689 | (1) |
|
|
689 | (1) |
|
|
690 | (1) |
|
|
690 | (1) |
|
|
691 | (1) |
|
Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover |
|
|
691 | (1) |
|
|
692 | (1) |
|
|
692 | (1) |
|
|
693 | (1) |
|
|
693 | (1) |
|
|
694 | (2) |
|
|
696 | (1) |
|
|
697 | (1) |
|
|
697 | (1) |
|
|
698 | (1) |
|
|
699 | (1) |
|
|
699 | (1) |
|
Montage of a Dream Deferred |
|
|
700 | (5) |
|
|
700 | (1) |
|
|
701 | (1) |
|
|
701 | (1) |
|
|
702 | (1) |
|
|
702 | (1) |
|
|
703 | (1) |
|
|
703 | (1) |
|
|
704 | (1) |
|
|
704 | (1) |
|
Stevie Smith (1902--1971) |
|
|
705 | (11) |
|
|
706 | (1) |
|
|
707 | (1) |
|
Souvenir de Monsieur Poop |
|
|
707 | (1) |
|
|
708 | (1) |
|
|
709 | (1) |
|
|
710 | (1) |
|
Thoughts about the Person from Porlock |
|
|
711 | (1) |
|
|
712 | (1) |
|
|
713 | (1) |
|
|
714 | (1) |
|
|
715 | (1) |
|
Lorine Niedecker (1903--1970) |
|
|
716 | (10) |
|
[Well, Spring Overflows the Land] |
|
|
717 | (1) |
|
|
717 | (1) |
|
[What Horror to Awake at Night] |
|
|
717 | (1) |
|
|
718 | (1) |
|
|
718 | (1) |
|
|
719 | (1) |
|
|
719 | (1) |
|
|
719 | (1) |
|
|
720 | (6) |
|
Countee Cullen (1903--1946) |
|
|
726 | (6) |
|
|
727 | (1) |
|
|
727 | (1) |
|
|
728 | (1) |
|
|
728 | (1) |
|
|
729 | (3) |
|
Louis Zukofsky (1904--1978) |
|
|
732 | (8) |
|
|
733 | (5) |
|
|
733 | (1) |
|
First Movement: ``And out of olde bokes, in good feith'' |
|
|
734 | (2) |
|
Fifth Movement: Autobiography |
|
|
736 | (2) |
|
|
738 | (2) |
|
Richard Eberhart (b. 1904) |
|
|
740 | (2) |
|
|
740 | (1) |
|
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment |
|
|
741 | (1) |
|
C. Day Lewis (1904--1972) |
|
|
742 | (3) |
|
|
743 | (1) |
|
|
744 | (1) |
|
|
744 | (1) |
|
Patrick Kavanagh (1904--1967) |
|
|
745 | (6) |
|
Inniskeen Road: July Evening |
|
|
746 | (1) |
|
|
746 | (3) |
|
I (``Clay is the word and clay is the flesh'') |
|
|
746 | (3) |
|
|
749 | (1) |
|
|
749 | (1) |
|
Come Dance with Kitty Stobling |
|
|
749 | (1) |
|
|
750 | (1) |
|
Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989) |
|
|
751 | (7) |
|
|
752 | (1) |
|
Where the Slow Fig's Purple Sloth |
|
|
753 | (1) |
|
|
754 | (1) |
|
|
754 | (1) |
|
There's a Grandfather's Clock in the Hall |
|
|
755 | (1) |
|
|
756 | (1) |
|
|
757 | (1) |
|
|
757 | (1) |
|
|
758 | (7) |
|
The War against the Trees |
|
|
759 | (1) |
|
|
760 | (1) |
|
|
760 | (3) |
|
|
763 | (1) |
|
|
763 | (1) |
|
|
763 | (1) |
|
|
764 | (1) |
|
Kenneth Rexroth (1905--1982) |
|
|
765 | (9) |
|
|
766 | (1) |
|
|
767 | (1) |
|
|
767 | (1) |
|
|
768 | (1) |
|
|
769 | (1) |
|
|
770 | (1) |
|
The Love Poems of Marichiko |
|
|
771 | (3) |
|
IV (``You ask me what I thought about'') |
|
|
771 | (1) |
|
VII (``Making love with you'') |
|
|
772 | (1) |
|
|
772 | (1) |
|
XXV (``Your tongue thrums and moves'') |
|
|
772 | (1) |
|
XXVII (``As I came from the'') |
|
|
772 | (1) |
|
XXXI (``Some day in six inches of'') |
|
|
772 | (1) |
|
XXXII (``I hold your head tight between'') |
|
|
773 | (1) |
|
XXXIII (``I cannot forget'') |
|
|
773 | (1) |
|
XXXIV (``Every morning, I'') |
|
|
773 | (1) |
|
LVIII (``Half in a dream'') |
|
|
773 | (1) |
|
LIX (``I hate this shadow of a ghost'') |
|
|
773 | (1) |
|
LX (``Chilled through, I wake up'') |
|
|
774 | (1) |
|
John Betjeman (1906--1984) |
|
|
774 | (7) |
|
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel |
|
|
775 | (1) |
|
|
776 | (1) |
|
An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828 |
|
|
777 | (2) |
|
|
779 | (1) |
|
|
780 | (1) |
|
William Empson (1906--1984) |
|
|
781 | (2) |
|
|
781 | (1) |
|
|
782 | (1) |
|
|
783 | (1) |
|
|
783 | (34) |
|
|
787 | (1) |
|
|
787 | (1) |
|
|
788 | (1) |
|
|
789 | (1) |
|
|
789 | (1) |
|
|
790 | (1) |
|
|
791 | (2) |
|
As I Walked Out One Evening |
|
|
793 | (2) |
|
|
795 | (1) |
|
XIV (``Yes, we are going to suffer, now; the sky'') |
|
|
795 | (1) |
|
XVII (``They are and suffer; that is all they do:'') |
|
|
795 | (1) |
|
XVIII (``Far from the heart of culture he was used:'') |
|
|
796 | (1) |
|
|
796 | (1) |
|
|
797 | (1) |
|
|
798 | (2) |
|
|
800 | (1) |
|
|
801 | (2) |
|
In Memory of Sigmund Freud |
|
|
803 | (3) |
|
|
806 | (2) |
|
|
808 | (2) |
|
|
810 | (1) |
|
|
810 | (1) |
|
|
811 | (3) |
|
|
814 | (1) |
|
|
815 | (2) |
|
|
817 | (5) |
|
|
817 | (1) |
|
|
818 | (1) |
|
|
819 | (2) |
|
|
821 | (1) |
|
Louis MacNeice (1907--1963) |
|
|
822 | (11) |
|
|
823 | (1) |
|
|
823 | (4) |
|
|
827 | (1) |
|
|
827 | (1) |
|
The Sunlight on the Garden |
|
|
828 | (1) |
|
|
829 | (1) |
|
|
830 | (1) |
|
|
831 | (1) |
|
|
832 | (1) |
|
|
832 | (1) |
|
George Oppen (1908--1984) |
|
|
833 | (8) |
|
|
834 | (1) |
|
|
835 | (1) |
|
|
835 | (1) |
|
|
835 | (1) |
|
|
836 | (1) |
|
|
836 | (5) |
|
|
836 | (4) |
|
|
840 | (1) |
|
Theodore Roethke (1908--1963) |
|
|
841 | (14) |
|
|
842 | (1) |
|
|
842 | (1) |
|
|
843 | (1) |
|
|
843 | (1) |
|
|
844 | (1) |
|
|
844 | (1) |
|
|
844 | (5) |
|
|
849 | (1) |
|
|
849 | (1) |
|
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze |
|
|
850 | (1) |
|
|
851 | (1) |
|
|
851 | (1) |
|
|
852 | (2) |
|
|
854 | (1) |
|
Stephen Spender (1909--1995) |
|
|
855 | (5) |
|
|
856 | (1) |
|
|
857 | (1) |
|
|
858 | (1) |
|
|
858 | (1) |
|
The Landscape near an Aerodrome |
|
|
859 | (1) |
|
|
860 | (1) |
|
Keith Douglas (1920--1944) |
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860 | (151) |
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861 | (1) |
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Simplify Me When I'm Dead |
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862 | (1) |
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862 | (1) |
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863 | (1) |
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864 | (1) |
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From Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) |
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865 | (5) |
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870 | (3) |
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[Letter 261: Thank You for the Surgery] 25 April 1862 |
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870 | (1) |
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[Letter 265: Will You Be My Preceptor?] 7 June 1862 |
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871 | (1) |
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[Letter 268: My Business Is Circumference] July 1862 |
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872 | (1) |
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873 | (4) |
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[Sprung Rhythm] August 21, 1877 |
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874 | (1) |
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[Sprung Rhythm] October 5, 1878 |
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874 | (2) |
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[My Poetry Errs on the Side of Oddness] February 15, 1879 |
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876 | (1) |
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[The Current Language Heightened] August 14, 1879 |
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876 | (1) |
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The Symbolism of Poetry (1900) |
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877 | (6) |
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From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work] (w. 1937) |
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883 | (6) |
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From Romanticism and Classicism (w. 1911--12) |
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889 | (8) |
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897 | (2) |
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899 | (13) |
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912 | (9) |
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Feminist Manifesto (w. 1914) |
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921 | (5) |
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Preface to Some Imagist Poets (1915) |
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926 | (2) |
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928 | (1) |
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928 | (11) |
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From How to Read (1929, 1931) |
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939 | (2) |
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Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919) |
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941 | (6) |
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947 | (2) |
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From The Metaphysical Poets (1921) |
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949 | (5) |
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From Prologue to Kora in Hell (1919) |
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954 | (6) |
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The Poetry of the Present [Preface to the American Edition of New Poems] (1919) |
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960 | (4) |
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The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926) |
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964 | (4) |
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A Letter to Harriet Monroe (1926) |
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968 | (3) |
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971 | (5) |
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From Adagia (w. 1934--40?) |
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972 | (3) |
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From Miscellaneous Notebooks (w. 1948--55?) |
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975 | (1) |
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From The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words (1942) |
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976 | (8) |
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The Figure a Poem Makes (1939) |
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984 | (2) |
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From A Transatlantic Interview (w. 1946) |
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986 | (8) |
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Humility, Concentration, and Gusto (1949) |
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994 | (6) |
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1000 | (11) |
Selected Bibliographies |
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1011 | (30) |
Permissions Acknowledgments |
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1041 | (8) |
Index |
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