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I 1900-1914 Never such innocence again |
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1900: The Darkling Thrush |
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13 | (6) |
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15 | (4) |
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1901: The Ballad of Jimmy Governor |
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19 | (11) |
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22 | (3) |
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Bridge-Guard in the Karroo |
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25 | (3) |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (4) |
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Autumn Morning at Cambridge |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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`I did not lose my heart in summer's even' |
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33 | (1) |
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1903 John Masefield: Cargoes |
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34 | (2) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (2) |
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`Because your voice was at my side' |
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37 | (1) |
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1905 John Davidson: A Runnable Stag |
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38 | (5) |
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To the Mikado, Portsmouth, USA |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (1) |
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1906 J. M. Synge: Beg-Innish |
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43 | (1) |
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1907 Shaw Neilson: The Sundowner |
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44 | (2) |
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1908 W. H. Davies: A Beggar's Life |
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46 | (2) |
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47 | (1) |
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1909 William Watson: from Sonnets to Miranda |
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48 | (1) |
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1910 W. B. Yeats: No Second Troy |
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49 | (7) |
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White Bears: Tolstoy at Astapovo |
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50 | (2) |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson: Uncle Ananias |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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The Ballad of Camden Town |
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54 | (2) |
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1911 Hilaire Belloc: Lord Finchley |
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56 | (12) |
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Last Lesson of the Afternoon |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (7) |
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65 | (3) |
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1912 Kathleen Emerson: `Oh! who are these in scant array?' |
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68 | (19) |
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70 | (2) |
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72 | (1) |
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The Old Vicarage, Grantchester |
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73 | (5) |
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78 | (4) |
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82 | (2) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (2) |
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1913 Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel |
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87 | (3) |
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`I said, This misery must end' |
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89 | (1) |
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1914 Robert Frost: Home Burial |
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90 | (19) |
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Abu Salammamm - A Song of Empire |
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94 | (2) |
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96 | (2) |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (1) |
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from The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (7) |
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II 1915-1922 War to Waste Land |
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1915 Thomas Hardy: In Time of `The Breaking of Nations' |
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109 | (9) |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (4) |
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117 | (1) |
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1916 Isaac Rosenberg: Break of Day in the Trenches |
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118 | (13) |
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119 | (2) |
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121 | (3) |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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1917 Leon Gellert: Before Action |
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131 | (15) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (2) |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (2) |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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139 | (5) |
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144 | (2) |
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1918 Wilfred Owen: The Send-Off |
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146 | (4) |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (1) |
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1919 Rudyard Kipling: from Epitaphs of the War |
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150 | (1) |
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1920 Ezra Pound: E. P. Ode Pour l'Election de son Sepulchre |
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151 | (8) |
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135 | (21) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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1921 Wallace Stevens: The Snow Man |
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159 | (5) |
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160 | (2) |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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1922 T. S. Eliot: from The Waste Land |
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164 | (11) |
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III 1923-1939 Danger and hope |
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1923 William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow |
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175 | (8) |
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176 | (3) |
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179 | (1) |
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180 | (1) |
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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1924 A. A. Milne: Buckingham Palace |
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183 | (2) |
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184 | (1) |
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1925 Shaw Neilson: The Old Wives Sat at the Table |
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185 | (4) |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (1) |
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1926 Robert Bridges: Low Barometer |
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189 | (5) |
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190 | (1) |
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`Cow-parsley and hawthorn blossom' |
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191 | (1) |
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192 | (1) |
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193 | (1) |
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1927 John Crowe Ransom: Vision by Sweetwater |
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194 | (3) |
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195 | (2) |
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1928 Edna St Vincent Millay: Dirge without Music |
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197 | (3) |
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Acquainted with the Night |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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1929 Hart Crane: A Name for All |
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200 | (1) |
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1930 W. H. Auden: Consider |
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201 | (3) |
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203 | (1) |
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1931 Basil Bunting: Aus dem Zweiten Reich |
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204 | (3) |
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1932 Marianne Moore: The Steeple-Jack |
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207 | (3) |
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1933 William Empson: Aubade |
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210 | (2) |
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1934 Charles Reznikoff: from Jerusalem the Golden |
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212 | (4) |
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214 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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1935 E. E. Cummings: `may I feel said he' |
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216 | (4) |
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218 | (2) |
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1936 Wallace Stevens: The Idea of Order at Key West |
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220 | (12) |
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The Ghost of Roger Casement |
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222 | (2) |
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On Seeing the Leni Riefenstahl Film of the 1936 Olympic Games |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (3) |
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228 | (2) |
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230 | (2) |
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232 | (10) |
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Thoughts during an Air Raid |
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236 | (1) |
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237 | (2) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (2) |
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1938 Stephen Spender: Port Bou |
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242 | (10) |
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244 | (2) |
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246 | (2) |
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248 | (1) |
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249 | (1) |
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250 | (1) |
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251 | (1) |
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1939 W. H. Auden: In Memory of W. B. Yeats |
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252 | (21) |
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The Last Words of My English Grandmother |
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255 | (2) |
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257 | (5) |
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262 | (1) |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (2) |
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`Say this city has ten million souls' |
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266 | (7) |
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1940 Henry Reed: Lessons of the War |
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273 | (18) |
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`All day it has rained...' |
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276 | (2) |
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278 | (2) |
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280 | (2) |
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282 | (2) |
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284 | (7) |
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1941 Noel Coward: We Must Have a Speech from a Minister |
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291 | (9) |
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293 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (2) |
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298 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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1942 Roy Fuller: Spring 1942 |
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300 | (7) |
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301 | (1) |
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from The Walls Do Not Fall |
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302 | (2) |
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304 | (2) |
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306 | (1) |
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1943 Keith Douglas: Cairo Jag |
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307 | (5) |
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308 | (1) |
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309 | (1) |
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310 | (1) |
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311 | (1) |
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1944 Charles Simic: Prodigy |
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312 | (9) |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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315 | (1) |
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316 | (2) |
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The Mind is an Enchanting Thing |
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318 | (2) |
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320 | (1) |
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1945 Claude McKay: Look within |
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321 | (18) |
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322 | (1) |
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner |
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323 | (1) |
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Day of Liberation, Bergen-Belsen, May 1945 |
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324 | (1) |
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325 | (2) |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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329 | (10) |
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V 1946-1968 Peace and Cold War |
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1946 Judith Wright: The Hawthorn Hedge |
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339 | (6) |
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340 | (1) |
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341 | (1) |
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342 | (1) |
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343 | (2) |
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1947 Weld on Kees: The View of the Castle |
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345 | (3) |
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346 | (1) |
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347 | (1) |
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1948 Theodore Roethke: Child on Top of a Greenhouse |
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348 | (3) |
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349 | (2) |
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1949 William Empson: Let it go |
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351 | (1) |
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1950 R. A. K. Mason: Sonnet to MacArthur's Eyes |
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352 | (3) |
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353 | (2) |
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1951 Adrienne Rich: The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room |
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355 | (3) |
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`Do not go gentle into that good night' |
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356 | (1) |
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357 | (1) |
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1952 W. H. Auden: The Shield of Achilles |
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358 | (5) |
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361 | (2) |
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1953 Judith Wright: The Lost Man |
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363 | (1) |
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1954 Edward Kamau Brathwaite: from Rites |
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364 | (8) |
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367 | (2) |
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369 | (1) |
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370 | (2) |
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1955 Judith Wright: At Cooloolah |
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372 | (6) |
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Frankie and Johnny in 1955 |
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373 | (3) |
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376 | (2) |
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1956 Allen Ginsberg: America |
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378 | (12) |
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382 | (2) |
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384 | (3) |
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A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra |
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387 | (3) |
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1957 Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning |
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390 | (4) |
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391 | (1) |
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392 | (2) |
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1958 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see |
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394 | (5) |
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396 | (3) |
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1959 R. D. FitzGerald: The Wind at Your Door |
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399 | (14) |
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404 | (1) |
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Eisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1959 |
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405 | (2) |
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407 | (2) |
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409 | (2) |
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411 | (2) |
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1960 Randall Jarrell: The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
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413 | (12) |
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from The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World |
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415 | (2) |
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417 | (2) |
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419 | (2) |
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421 | (2) |
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423 | (2) |
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1961 Michael Hamburger: In a Cold Season |
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425 | (10) |
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430 | (1) |
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431 | (1) |
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432 | (2) |
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434 | (1) |
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435 | (14) |
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436 | (2) |
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438 | (1) |
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439 | (2) |
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441 | (1) |
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442 | (2) |
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444 | (2) |
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446 | (3) |
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1963 Gwen Harwood: Prize-Giving |
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449 | (5) |
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451 | (2) |
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453 | (1) |
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1964 Robert Lowell: For the Union Dead |
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454 | (5) |
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457 | (1) |
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458 | (1) |
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1965 Basil Bunting: from Briggflatts |
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459 | (9) |
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464 | (1) |
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465 | (3) |
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1966 William Plomer: A Walk in Wurzburg |
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468 | (4) |
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At Rest from the Grim Place |
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470 | (1) |
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471 | (1) |
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1967 Richard Wilbur: A Miltonic Sonnet for Mr Johnson on His Refusal of Peter Hurd's Official Portrait |
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472 | (11) |
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Waking Early Sunday Morning |
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473 | (4) |
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477 | (1) |
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Let Me Die a Youngman's Death |
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478 | (2) |
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For the Anniversary of My Death |
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480 | (1) |
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`It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.' |
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481 | (2) |
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1968 A. D. Hope: On an Engraving by Casserius |
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483 | (28) |
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488 | (2) |
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490 | (2) |
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492 | (3) |
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495 | (2) |
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497 | (1) |
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498 | (1) |
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499 | (1) |
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500 | (1) |
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501 | (1) |
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502 | (9) |
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VI 1969-1988 From the Moon to Berlin |
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1969 John Updike: Seven New Ways of Looking at the Moon |
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511 | (9) |
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514 | (2) |
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516 | (1) |
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517 | (2) |
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519 | (1) |
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1970 David Malouf: Reading Horace outside Sydney, 1970 |
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520 | (7) |
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521 | (2) |
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523 | (3) |
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`I leave this at your ear' |
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526 | (1) |
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1971 Charles Simic: Spoon |
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527 | (5) |
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A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree |
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528 | (2) |
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530 | (2) |
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1972 Peter Redgrove: The Curiosity-Shop |
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532 | (8) |
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533 | (2) |
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535 | (1) |
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536 | (1) |
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537 | (3) |
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1973 Douglas Stewart: B Flat |
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540 | (5) |
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On Getting Out of Vietnam |
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542 | (1) |
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On Being Asked for a Peace Poem |
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543 | (2) |
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1974 Paul Durcan: In Memory of Those Murdered in the Dublin Massacre, May 1974 |
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545 | (1) |
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1975 Seamus Heaney: Punishment |
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546 | (8) |
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A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford |
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548 | (3) |
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On First Looking into Chapman's Hesiod |
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551 | (3) |
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1976 Elizabeth Bishop: One Art |
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554 | (5) |
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555 | (2) |
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The Abandoned British Cemetery at Balasore |
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557 | (2) |
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1977 Les Murray: The Future |
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559 | (3) |
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from Crying in Early Infancy |
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561 | (1) |
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1978 U. A. Fanthorpe: The List |
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562 | (10) |
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563 | (4) |
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Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days |
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567 | (2) |
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569 | (2) |
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571 | (1) |
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1979 Derek Walcott: Koenig of the River |
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572 | (14) |
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576 | (1) |
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577 | (4) |
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581 | (2) |
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583 | (3) |
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1980 Paul Muldoon: Why Brownlee Left |
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586 | (4) |
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587 | (3) |
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1981 Andrew Motion: Anne Frank Huis |
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590 | (7) |
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592 | (1) |
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593 | (4) |
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1982 James Fenton: Dead Soldiers |
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597 | (12) |
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I Found South African Breweries Most Hospitable |
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600 | (2) |
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from Very Indian Poems in Indian English |
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602 | (2) |
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604 | (1) |
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605 | (1) |
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Questions for the Old Woman |
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606 | (1) |
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607 | (1) |
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608 | (1) |
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1983 Jorie Graham: History |
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609 | (6) |
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611 | (2) |
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613 | (1) |
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614 | (1) |
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1984 Ian McMillan: Visitors: Armthorpe, August 1984 |
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615 | (14) |
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616 | (4) |
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620 | (1) |
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621 | (1) |
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622 | (3) |
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625 | (1) |
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626 | (1) |
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627 | (2) |
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1985 Hugo Williams: Tangerines |
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629 | (13) |
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631 | (1) |
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632 | (1) |
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633 | (9) |
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1986 Vincent O'Sullivan: liberal |
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642 | (9) |
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643 | (4) |
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647 | (2) |
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649 | (2) |
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1987 Richard Wilbur: A Fable |
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651 | (13) |
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The Quick and the Dead at Pompeii |
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652 | (2) |
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654 | (2) |
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656 | (1) |
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657 | (2) |
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659 | (2) |
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661 | (2) |
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663 | (1) |
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1988 R. S. Thomas: The Moor |
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664 | (11) |
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665 | (2) |
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667 | (2) |
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Down by the Station, Early in the Morning |
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669 | (1) |
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670 | (5) |
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1989 Elizabeth Spires: The Woman on the Dump |
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675 | (11) |
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677 | (1) |
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678 | (1) |
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679 | (1) |
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680 | (1) |
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681 | (2) |
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On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses |
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683 | (2) |
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685 | (1) |
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1990 Carol Rumens: A Dialogue of Perestroishiks |
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686 | (11) |
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688 | (1) |
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689 | (2) |
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691 | (3) |
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694 | (1) |
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695 | (2) |
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1991 Michael Laskey: Living with the Doctor |
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697 | (17) |
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699 | (3) |
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702 | (1) |
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703 | (1) |
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704 | (2) |
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706 | (2) |
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708 | (2) |
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710 | (1) |
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I'r Hen Iaith A'i Chaneuon |
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711 | (2) |
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713 | (1) |
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1992 Simon Armitage: Gooseberry Season |
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714 | (6) |
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716 | (1) |
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717 | (3) |
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1993 Andrew Johnston: How to Talk |
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720 | (7) |
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721 | (1) |
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722 | (1) |
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723 | (2) |
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725 | (2) |
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1994 Steve Chimombo: Developments from the Grave |
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727 | (5) |
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Philip Larkin in New Orleans |
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729 | (1) |
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730 | (2) |
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1995 Mary Jo Salter: A Kiss in Space |
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732 | (12) |
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735 | (1) |
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736 | (2) |
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738 | (1) |
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The Fire in the Forty-four |
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739 | (2) |
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741 | (2) |
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743 | (1) |
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1996 Virginia Hamilton Adair: One Ordinary Evening |
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744 | (12) |
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746 | (3) |
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What the Gypsies Told My Grandmother While She Was Still a Young Girl |
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749 | (1) |
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750 | (3) |
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It Allows a Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen |
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753 | (3) |
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1997 Jamie McKendrick: Legacies |
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756 | (3) |
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758 | (1) |
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1998 Vincent O'Sullivan: Seeing You Asked |
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759 | (3) |
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Deep Sorriness Atonement Song |
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760 | (2) |
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1999 Sophie Hannah: None of the Blood |
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762 | (13) |
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763 | (1) |
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764 | (3) |
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767 | (1) |
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768 | (1) |
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769 | (6) |
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2000 Christopher Reid: Bollockshire |
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775 | |
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Dancing in the Churchill Lounge |
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779 | (1) |
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780 | (3) |
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783 | (2) |
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785 | (1) |
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786 | (3) |
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789 | (12) |
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Index of poets and titles |
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