| About the Author |
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| Preface |
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| Introduction: Reading (and Writing About) Literature |
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Reading the Parable in Context |
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Reading Frost's Poem in Context |
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Reading a Play in Context |
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Understanding Literature: Experience, Interpretation, Evaluation |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (9) |
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Reasons for Writing about Literature |
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Ways of Writing about Literature |
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10 | (2) |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (6) |
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19 | (650) |
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21 | (16) |
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21 | (1) |
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The Experience of Fiction |
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22 | (1) |
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The Interpretation of Fiction |
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23 | (2) |
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24 | (1) |
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The Evaluation of Fiction |
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25 | (7) |
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26 | (6) |
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The Act of Reading Fiction |
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32 | (5) |
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32 | (5) |
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37 | (6) |
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Early Forms: Parable, Fable, and Tale |
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37 | (4) |
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38 | (1) |
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38 | (3) |
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41 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (64) |
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43 | (11) |
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45 | (9) |
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54 | (6) |
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56 | (4) |
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60 | (11) |
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62 | (9) |
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71 | (9) |
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73 | (7) |
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80 | (5) |
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81 | (4) |
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85 | (7) |
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86 | (6) |
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92 | (15) |
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93 | (2) |
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95 | (1) |
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96 | (11) |
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107 | (18) |
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Reasons for Writing about Fiction |
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107 | (1) |
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Informal Ways of Writing about Fiction |
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107 | (5) |
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108 | (1) |
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Katherine Anne Porter Magic |
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108 | (3) |
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111 | (1) |
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Formal Ways of Writing about Fiction |
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112 | (1) |
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Student Papers on Fiction |
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113 | (7) |
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Questions for Writing about Fiction |
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120 | (2) |
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122 | (3) |
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Three Fiction Writers in Context |
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125 | (127) |
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Reading Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, and Sandra Cisneros in Depth |
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125 | (2) |
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Questions for In-Depth Reading |
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126 | (1) |
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Edgar Allan Poe in Context |
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127 | (4) |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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Poe and the Detective Story |
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129 | (1) |
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129 | (2) |
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131 | (38) |
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131 | (7) |
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138 | (5) |
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The Fall of the House of Usher |
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143 | (13) |
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156 | (13) |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (6) |
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Flannery O'Connor in Context |
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177 | (4) |
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178 | (1) |
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178 | (1) |
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179 | (2) |
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Flannery O'Connor: Stories |
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181 | (43) |
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181 | (14) |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find |
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195 | (10) |
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Everything That Rises Must Converge |
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205 | (11) |
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own |
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216 | (8) |
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Flannery O'Connor: Essays, and Letters |
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224 | (3) |
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227 | (3) |
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Sandra Cisneros in Context |
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230 | (5) |
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230 | (1) |
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Literature of the American Southwest |
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231 | (1) |
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231 | (4) |
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235 | (11) |
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233 | (2) |
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235 | (2) |
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There Was a Man, There Was a Woman |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (8) |
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246 | (3) |
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249 | (3) |
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A Collection of Short Fiction |
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252 | (417) |
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252 | (230) |
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Marriage Is a Private Affair |
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253 | (5) |
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258 | (21) |
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The Garden of Forking Paths |
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279 | (8) |
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287 | (12) |
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299 | (11) |
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310 | (14) |
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings |
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324 | (5) |
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329 | (12) |
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341 | (9) |
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350 | (6) |
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356 | (5) |
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361 | (5) |
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366 | (27) |
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393 | (31) |
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424 | (9) |
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433 | (6) |
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439 | (4) |
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
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443 | (7) |
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450 | (10) |
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460 | (13) |
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473 | (9) |
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482 | (187) |
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482 | (6) |
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488 | (8) |
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496 | (3) |
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499 | (7) |
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506 | (10) |
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516 | (8) |
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524 | (16) |
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540 | (3) |
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543 | (6) |
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549 | (9) |
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558 | (11) |
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569 | (2) |
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McPherson Why I Like Country Music |
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571 | (11) |
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582 | (11) |
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593 | (8) |
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601 | (5) |
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606 | (13) |
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The Bunchgrass Edge of the World |
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619 | (16) |
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635 | (7) |
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642 | (8) |
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I'm Your Horse in the Night |
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650 | (4) |
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654 | (7) |
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661 | (8) |
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669 | (490) |
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670 | (12) |
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671 | (1) |
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671 | (1) |
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671 | (1) |
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The Interpretation of Poetry |
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672 | (4) |
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
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674 | (2) |
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676 | (1) |
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676 | (4) |
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678 | (2) |
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The Act of Reading Poetry |
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680 | (2) |
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680 | (2) |
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682 | (4) |
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682 | (2) |
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684 | (2) |
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686 | (70) |
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686 | (9) |
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687 | (1) |
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688 | (2) |
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690 | (2) |
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[Thou art indeed just, Lord] |
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692 | (1) |
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693 | (1) |
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693 | (1) |
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694 | (1) |
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695 | (8) |
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[I wandered lonely as a cloud] |
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697 | (2) |
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699 | (1) |
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It is a beauteous evening |
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700 | (1) |
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701 | (1) |
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702 | (1) |
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703 | (6) |
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First Death in Nova Scotia |
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704 | (2) |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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706 | (1) |
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707 | (1) |
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707 | (1) |
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708 | (1) |
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Figures of Speech: Simile and Metaphor |
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709 | (6) |
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That time of year thou may'st in me behold |
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710 | (1) |
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711 | (1) |
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712 | (1) |
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713 | (1) |
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714 | (1) |
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715 | (6) |
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716 | (1) |
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717 | (1) |
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718 | (1) |
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719 | (1) |
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720 | (1) |
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Because I could not stop for Death |
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720 | (1) |
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721 | (7) |
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722 | (3) |
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725 | (1) |
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death |
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726 | (1) |
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726 | (1) |
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727 | (1) |
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Mother, Among the Dustbins |
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728 | (1) |
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Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance |
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728 | (8) |
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In the Valley of the Elwy |
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731 | (1) |
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732 | (1) |
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733 | (1) |
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734 | (1) |
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735 | (1) |
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736 | (1) |
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736 | (8) |
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738 | (2) |
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740 | (2) |
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The Destruction of Sennacherib |
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742 | (1) |
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743 | (1) |
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744 | (1) |
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Structure: Closed Form and Open Form |
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744 | (11) |
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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer |
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746 | (1) |
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When I heard the learn'd astronomer |
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747 | (1) |
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748 | (1) |
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749 | (1) |
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750 | (1) |
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751 | (1) |
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752 | (1) |
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Reflections in Black & Blue |
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752 | (1) |
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753 | (2) |
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Crumbling is not an instant's Act |
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755 | (1) |
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756 | (49) |
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756 | (10) |
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757 | (3) |
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760 | (1) |
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The Wind begun to knead the Grass |
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761 | (1) |
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762 | (2) |
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764 | (2) |
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766 | (5) |
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766 | (1) |
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Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams |
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767 | (1) |
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768 | (1) |
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Terrier Torment; or, Mr. Hopkins and His Dog |
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768 | (1) |
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day |
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769 | (1) |
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? |
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769 | (1) |
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770 | (1) |
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770 | (1) |
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771 | (10) |
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Eheu fugaces Postume, Postume |
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771 | (3) |
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S' amor non e, che dunque e quel ch' io sento? [If it's not love, then what is it I feel?] |
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774 | (1) |
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Der Panther [The Panther] |
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775 | (2) |
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Le Pont Mirabeau [Mirabeau Bridge] |
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777 | (2) |
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Nocturno Sonado [Dream Nocturne] |
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779 | (2) |
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Responses (Point--Counterpoint) |
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781 | (11) |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
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781 | (1) |
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd |
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782 | (1) |
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Not marble, nor the gilded monuments |
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783 | (1) |
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``Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments'' |
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784 | (1) |
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Nurse's Song [Innocence]: Nurse's Song [Experience] |
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785 | (1) |
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786 | (1) |
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The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life |
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787 | (1) |
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788 | (1) |
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788 | (2) |
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Siesta time in sultry summer |
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790 | (1) |
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791 | (1) |
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Adaptations (Poetry and Song) |
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792 | (13) |
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To Every Thing There Is a Season |
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792 | (1) |
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792 | (2) |
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794 | (1) |
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794 | (1) |
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795 | (1) |
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795 | (2) |
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797 | (1) |
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798 | (1) |
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798 | (1) |
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799 | (1) |
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800 | (1) |
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800 | (5) |
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Sistine Chapel Ceiling (Detail) |
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A goiter it seems I got from this backward craning |
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The Elder Landscape with the Fall of Icarus |
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus |
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Hunters in the Snow: Breughel |
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The Elder Hunters in the Snow |
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The Return of the Prodigal Son |
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Goya's ``The Third of May, 1808'' |
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Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt |
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Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (part 2) |
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805 | (17) |
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Reasons for Writing about Poetry |
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805 | (1) |
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Informal Ways of Writing about Poetry |
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805 | (3) |
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806 | (1) |
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806 | (1) |
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807 | (1) |
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807 | (1) |
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Formal Ways of Writing about Poetry |
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808 | (2) |
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809 | (1) |
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810 | (8) |
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Questions for Writing about Poetry |
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818 | (2) |
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820 | (2) |
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822 | (109) |
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Reading Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes in Depth |
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822 | (2) |
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Questions for In-Depth Reading |
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823 | (1) |
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Emily Dickinson in Context |
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824 | (5) |
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The Nineteenth-Century New England Literary Scene |
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824 | (1) |
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Dickinson and Modern Poetry |
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825 | (1) |
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Dickinson and Christianity |
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826 | (1) |
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826 | (1) |
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I cannot dance upon my Toes (326) |
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827 | (1) |
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The soul selects her own Society (303) |
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828 | (1) |
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829 | (29) |
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108 Surgeons must be very careful |
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829 | (1) |
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185 ``Faith'' is a fine invention |
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830 | (1) |
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199 I'm ``wife''---I've finished that |
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830 | (1) |
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258 There's a certain Slant of light |
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831 | (1) |
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341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes |
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832 | (1) |
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214 I taste a liquor never brewed |
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833 | (1) |
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328 A Bird came down the Walk |
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833 | (1) |
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348 I dreaded that first Robin, so |
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834 | (1) |
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668 ``Nature'' is what we see |
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835 | (1) |
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986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass |
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835 | (1) |
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1068 Further in Summer than the Birds |
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836 | (1) |
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837 | (1) |
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536 The heart asks Pleasure---first |
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838 | (1) |
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599 There is a pain---so utter |
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650 Pain---has an element of Blank |
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838 | (1) |
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744 Remorse---is Memory---awake |
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280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain |
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419 We grow accustomed to the Dark |
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840 | (1) |
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449 I died for Beauty---but was scarce |
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841 | (1) |
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465 I heard a Fly buzz---when I died |
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841 | (1) |
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501 This World is not Conclusion |
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842 | (1) |
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547 I've seen a Dying Eye |
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842 | (1) |
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1078 The Bustle in a House |
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842 | (1) |
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1100 The last Night that She lived |
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843 | (1) |
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324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church |
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844 | (1) |
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365 Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? |
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508 I'm ceded---I've stopped being Theirs |
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845 | (1) |
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512 The Soul has Bandaged moments |
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846 | (1) |
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632 The Brain---is wider than the Sky |
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846 | (1) |
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1138 A Spider sewed at Night |
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847 | (1) |
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1142 The Props assist the House |
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847 | (1) |
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1624 Apparently with no surprise |
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448 This was a Poet---It is That |
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569 I reckon---when I count at all |
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849 | (1) |
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657 I dwell in Possibility |
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849 | (1) |
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709 Publication---is the Auction |
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850 | (1) |
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249 Wild Nights---Wild Nights! |
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851 | (1) |
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480 ``Why do I love'' You, Sir? |
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851 | (1) |
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1732 My life closed twice before its close |
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852 | (1) |
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67 Success is counted sweetest |
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853 | (1) |
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241 I like a look of Agony |
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853 | (1) |
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435 Much Madness is divinest Sense |
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854 | (1) |
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1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant |
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585 I like to see it lap the Miles |
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855 | (1) |
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754 My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun |
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855 | (1) |
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1463 A Route of Evanescence |
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856 | (1) |
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1705 Volcanoes be in Sicily |
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856 | (2) |
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Three Dickinson Poems with Altered Punctuation |
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858 | (1) |
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Poems Inspired by Dickinson |
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859 | (4) |
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Notes from the Other Side |
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859 | (1) |
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Three Times My Life Has Opened |
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860 | (1) |
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Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes |
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860 | (2) |
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862 | (1) |
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Dickinson on Herself and Her First Poems |
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863 | (1) |
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864 | (4) |
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868 | (6) |
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870 | (2) |
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872 | (1) |
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872 | (2) |
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874 | (1) |
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874 | (20) |
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874 | (2) |
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876 | (1) |
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877 | (2) |
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879 | (4) |
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883 | (1) |
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884 | (1) |
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884 | (2) |
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886 | (1) |
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Acquainted with the Night |
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887 | (1) |
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888 | (1) |
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889 | (1) |
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890 | (1) |
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891 | (1) |
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892 | (1) |
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892 | (2) |
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Critical Comments by Frost |
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894 | (2) |
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896 | (4) |
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Langston Hughes in Context |
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900 | (5) |
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900 | (1) |
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901 | (2) |
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903 | (1) |
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903 | (2) |
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905 | (19) |
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905 | (1) |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
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906 | (1) |
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906 | (1) |
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914 | (1) |
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918 | (2) |
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920 | (1) |
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920 | (2) |
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Let America Be America Again |
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922 | (1) |
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923 | (1) |
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Hughes on Harlem, the Blues |
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924 | (2) |
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926 | (5) |
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931 | (228) |
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931 | (68) |
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932 | (1) |
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933 | (2) |
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936 | (1) |
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936 | (1) |
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To My Dear and Loving Husband |
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937 | (1) |
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways |
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937 | (1) |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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938 | (1) |
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There Is a Garden in Her Face |
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938 | (1) |
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939 | (1) |
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940 | (1) |
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Song: Go and catch a falling star |
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941 | (1) |
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942 | (1) |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
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943 | (2) |
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945 | (1) |
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Batter my heart, three-personed God |
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946 | (1) |
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946 | (1) |
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950 | (1) |
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950 | (1) |
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951 | (1) |
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time |
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951 | (1) |
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952 | (1) |
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952 | (1) |
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953 | (1) |
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Spring and Fall: to a Young Child |
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953 | (1) |
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When I was one-and-twenty |
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954 | (1) |
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To an Athlete Dying Young |
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954 | (1) |
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Earl of Surrey The soote season |
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955 | (1) |
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956 | (1) |
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956 | (1) |
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When I have fears that I may cease to be |
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957 | (1) |
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957 | (2) |
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959 | (10) |
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969 | (1) |
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970 | (2) |
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972 | (2) |
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When I consider how my light is spent |
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974 | (1) |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont |
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974 | (1) |
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A Litany in Time of Plague |
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975 | (1) |
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976 | (1) |
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977 | (3) |
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980 | (1) |
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When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes |
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980 | (1) |
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
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981 | (1) |
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Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame |
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981 | (1) |
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun |
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982 | (1) |
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982 | (1) |
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983 | (2) |
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand |
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985 | (1) |
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986 | (2) |
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988 | (1) |
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988 | (1) |
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A noiseless patient spider |
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988 | (1) |
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989 | (4) |
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The world is too much with us |
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993 | (1) |
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994 | (1) |
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Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 |
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994 | (1) |
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Lines: Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey |
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995 | (4) |
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999 | (1) |
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999 | (46) |
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1000 | (1) |
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1001 | (2) |
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1003 | (1) |
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1004 | (1) |
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1005 | (1) |
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1006 | (1) |
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1006 | (1) |
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My Grandmother's Love Letters |
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1007 | (1) |
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1008 | (1) |
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Anyone lived in a pretty how town |
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1008 | (1) |
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I thank You God for this most amazing |
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1009 | (2) |
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1011 | (4) |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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1015 | (1) |
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A Study of Reading Habits |
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1015 | (1) |
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1015 | (1) |
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1016 | (2) |
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1018 | (1) |
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1021 | (1) |
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1022 | (1) |
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1023 | (1) |
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The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
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1024 | (1) |
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1025 | (1) |
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1027 | (1) |
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Traveling through the dark |
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1028 | (1) |
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
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1029 | (2) |
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1031 | (1) |
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1032 | (1) |
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1033 | (1) |
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Do not go gentle into that good night |
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1035 | (1) |
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1036 | (1) |
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1037 | (1) |
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1037 | (2) |
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Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota |
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1039 | (1) |
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1044 | (1) |
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1045 | (63) |
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1046 | (1) |
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Indian Boy Love Songs #1 and #2 |
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1046 | (1) |
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This Is a Photograph of Me |
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1047 | (1) |
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1048 | (2) |
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From Meditations on the South Valley XVII |
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1050 | (1) |
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Today I Am Envying the Glorious Mexicans |
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1050 | (1) |
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1051 | (2) |
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Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt |
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1053 | (1) |
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1053 | (2) |
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Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-second Year |
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1055 | (1) |
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1055 | (1) |
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1056 | (1) |
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1058 | (1) |
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1058 | (1) |
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Steady as Any Ship My Father |
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1059 | (1) |
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1060 | (3) |
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1063 | (1) |
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1064 | (3) |
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1068 | (1) |
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Indian Boarding School: The Runaways |
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1068 | (1) |
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Constantly Risking Absurdity |
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1069 | (1) |
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1080 | (1) |
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The Heart's Counting Knows Only One |
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1084 | (1) |
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1085 | (1) |
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Saint Francis and the Sow |
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1086 | (1) |
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1091 | (1) |
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Poem for My Father's Ghost |
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1091 | (1) |
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A Story of How a Wall Stands |
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A Martian Sends a Postcard Home |
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1111 | (1) |
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A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention |
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Drinking the Corinthian sun |
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A Song on The End of the World |
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The Cadet Picture of My Father |
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1161 | (19) |
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1164 | (10) |
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Isabella Augusta Persse, Lady Gregory |
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1166 | (1) |
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1166 | (8) |
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The Interpretation of Drama |
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1174 | (3) |
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1177 | (3) |
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1180 | (3) |
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1180 | (1) |
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1181 | (2) |
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1183 | (18) |
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1183 | (3) |
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1186 | (2) |
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1188 | (5) |
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1192 | (1) |
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1193 | (3) |
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1196 | (2) |
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1198 | (3) |
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1201 | (16) |
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Reasons for Writing about Drama |
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1201 | (1) |
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Informal Ways of Writing about Drama |
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1201 | (4) |
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1202 | (1) |
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Sophocles Antigone (excerpt) |
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1202 | (2) |
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1204 | (1) |
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Formal Ways of Writing about Drama |
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1205 | (1) |
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1206 | (6) |
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Questions for Writing about Drama |
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1212 | (1) |
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Questions for In-Depth Reading |
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1213 | (1) |
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1214 | (3) |
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The Greek Theater: Sophocles in Context |
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1217 | (85) |
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Reading Sophocles in Context |
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1217 | (5) |
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1217 | (1) |
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1217 | (2) |
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1219 | (2) |
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1221 | (1) |
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1222 | (71) |
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1222 | (41) |
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1263 | (30) |
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1293 | (9) |
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The Elizabethan Theater: Shakespeare in Context |
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1302 | (204) |
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Reading Shakespeare in Context |
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1302 | (5) |
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London in the Age of Elizabeth |
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1302 | (1) |
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The Arts in the Age of Elizabeth |
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1303 | (1) |
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Stagecraft in the Elizabethan Age |
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1303 | (1) |
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Shakespeare and His Works |
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1304 | (2) |
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1306 | (1) |
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1307 | (191) |
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1307 | (88) |
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
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1395 | (103) |
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1498 | (8) |
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The Modern Realistic Theater: Ibsen and Shaw in Context |
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1506 | (100) |
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Reading Ibsen and Shaw in Context |
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1506 | (100) |
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1506 | (1) |
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A Note on the Theater of the Absurd |
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1507 | (1) |
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1508 | (1) |
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1509 | (11) |
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1520 | (41) |
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1561 | (45) |
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A Collection of Modern Drama |
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1606 | (227) |
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1606 | (9) |
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1615 | (12) |
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1627 | (66) |
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1693 | (6) |
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1699 | (71) |
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1770 | (9) |
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1779 | (54) |
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A Collection of Contemporary Plays |
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1833 | (198) |
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1833 | (53) |
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1886 | (6) |
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1892 | (24) |
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1916 | (3) |
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1919 | (13) |
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Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth |
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1932 | (38) |
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1970 | (7) |
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1977 | (54) |
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PART FOUR CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND RESEARCH |
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2031 | (124) |
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2033 | (35) |
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Why Do Research about Literature? |
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2033 | (1) |
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Clarifying the Assignment |
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2034 | (1) |
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2034 | (1) |
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Finding and Using Sources |
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2035 | (1) |
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Using Computerized Databases |
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2036 | (2) |
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Using the Internet for Research |
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2038 | (3) |
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Developing a Critical Perspective |
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2041 | (1) |
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2042 | (1) |
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2043 | (2) |
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2045 | (1) |
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2046 | (3) |
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Documenting Electronic Sources |
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2049 | (2) |
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Alternative Documentation Style: Endnotes and Footnotes |
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2051 | (1) |
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A Student Essay Using One Source as a Stimulus |
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2052 | (5) |
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A Research Paper on a Single Work Using Multiple Sources |
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2057 | (4) |
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A Research Paper Using Multiple Works and Multiple Sources |
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2061 | (7) |
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Critical Theory: Approaches to the Analysis and Interpretation of Literature |
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2068 | (44) |
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2068 | (3) |
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2068 | (3) |
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I'm ``wife''---I've finished that |
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2071 | (1) |
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The Canon and the Curriculum |
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2071 | (5) |
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2076 | (3) |
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Biographical Perspectives |
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2079 | (3) |
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2082 | (2) |
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Psychological Perspectives |
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2084 | (4) |
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Feminist and Marxist Perspectives |
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2088 | (5) |
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Reader-Response Perspectives |
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2093 | (4) |
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Mythological Perspectives |
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2097 | (3) |
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Structuralist Perspectives |
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2100 | (4) |
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Deconstructive Perspectives |
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2104 | (3) |
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Cultural Studies Perspectives |
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2107 | (2) |
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Using Critical Perspectives as Heuristics |
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2109 | (3) |
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Critical Comments about Literature |
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2112 | (43) |
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2113 | (1) |
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2114 | (2) |
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2116 | (1) |
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2117 | (1) |
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2118 | (1) |
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2118 | (1) |
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The Authenticity of the Imagination |
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2119 | (2) |
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2121 | (1) |
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Technique in Writing the Short Story |
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2122 | (1) |
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Notes for the Modern Tragedy |
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2123 | (1) |
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2123 | (1) |
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2124 | (1) |
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2125 | (1) |
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2126 | (1) |
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The Poet and the Tradition |
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2127 | (1) |
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2128 | (1) |
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2129 | (1) |
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Lyric Poetry and the Short Story |
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2130 | (1) |
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2130 | (1) |
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2131 | (1) |
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2132 | (1) |
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2133 | (1) |
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Tragedy and the Common Man |
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2134 | (2) |
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Production Notes to The Glass Menagerie |
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2136 | (2) |
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The Catastrophe of Success |
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2138 | (3) |
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On Drama as Literature and Performance |
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2141 | (1) |
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2142 | (1) |
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2143 | (1) |
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Poetry, Language, and Meaning |
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2143 | (1) |
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2144 | (1) |
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2145 | (1) |
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2146 | (1) |
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Stories Are Letters (To Robby) |
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2147 | (1) |
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2148 | (1) |
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On the Importance of Mystery in Plot |
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2148 | (2) |
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On the Validity of Free Verse |
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2150 | (1) |
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2151 | (4) |
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| Timeline: Literature in Context |
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2155 | (6) |
| Glossary |
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2161 | (10) |
| Acknowledgments |
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2171 | (19) |
| Index |
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