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1 Starting Out: An Introduction |
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Sweater Weather: A Love Song to Language |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (3) |
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6 | (2) |
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8 | (2) |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (3) |
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11 | (2) |
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In a Station of the Metro |
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13 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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Clarity, Obscurity, and Ambiguity |
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13 | (2) |
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13 | (2) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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Reading Sonnevi on a Tuesday Night |
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19 | (2) |
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21 | (74) |
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23 | (18) |
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25 | (2) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (4) |
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Sonnet 73 [ "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"] |
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28 | (2) |
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A Noiseless Patient Spider |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (4) |
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32 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (2) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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35 | (1) |
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VI the rites for Cousin Vit |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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Traveling through the Dark |
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39 | (1) |
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39 | (2) |
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41 | (18) |
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41 | (5) |
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46 | (1) |
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Speech, Rhythm, and the Line |
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47 | (5) |
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49 | (3) |
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52 | (1) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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53 | (3) |
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Sonnet 116 [ "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"] |
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54 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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#328 [ "A Bird came down the Walk---"] |
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54 | (2) |
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56 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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Eva Braun at Berchtesgaden |
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57 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (18) |
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60 | (3) |
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
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61 | (2) |
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63 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (5) |
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65 | (3) |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (1) |
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Behind My Ear Is a Little Palace in Broad Daylight |
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70 | (1) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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1. the fever (starring kristy b) |
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75 | (1) |
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75 | (2) |
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5 The Sound (And Look) Of Sense |
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Excerpt, An Essay on Criticism |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (4) |
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79 | (2) |
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81 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (2) |
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83 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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Alliteration and Assonance |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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86 | (3) |
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87 | (1) |
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87 | (2) |
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89 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (2) |
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95 | (82) |
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97 | (20) |
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Men at My Father's Funeral |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (5) |
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99 | (2) |
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101 | (2) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (2) |
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104 | (2) |
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106 | (2) |
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106 | (2) |
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108 | (4) |
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108 | (1) |
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First Death in Nova Scotia |
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109 | (3) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (1) |
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The Man. His Bowl. His Raspberries |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (20) |
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The Death of a Small Town |
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117 | (2) |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (3) |
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120 | (1) |
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#465 [ "I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---"] |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (2) |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (3) |
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My Grandmother's Love Letters |
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125 | (3) |
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128 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (2) |
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Sonnet 30 [ "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought"] |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (2) |
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137 | (21) |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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Narration, Pacing, and Tense |
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139 | (3) |
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139 | (2) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (3) |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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145 | (4) |
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145 | (3) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (3) |
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150 | (2) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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[ writing for a young man on the redline train: "to his boy mistress"] |
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153 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (2) |
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9 The Mysteries Of Language |
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158 | (19) |
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159 | (5) |
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159 | (2) |
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161 | (2) |
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excerpt, A Valentine for Sherwood Anderson |
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163 | (1) |
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The Logic of the Analogic |
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164 | (3) |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (3) |
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excerpt, Leaves of Grass, [ "O hot cheeked and blushing! O foolish hectic!"] |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (2) |
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170 | (2) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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172 | (1) |
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172 | (1) |
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173 | (1) |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (42) |
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179 | (22) |
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Reading the Late Henry James |
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179 | (1) |
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180 | (4) |
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Variations on a Text by Vallejo |
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182 | (1) |
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Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca |
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182 | (2) |
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184 | (2) |
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184 | (2) |
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186 | (4) |
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#372 [ "After great pain, a formal feeling comes---"] |
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186 | (1) |
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The Widow's Lament in Springtime |
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187 | (2) |
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189 | (1) |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (3) |
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193 | (1) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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194 | (1) |
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I Dreaded that First Robin, So |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (1) |
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196 | (1) |
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Off-Season at the Edge of the World |
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198 | (1) |
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198 | (3) |
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201 | (18) |
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201 | (2) |
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The Soul, Reaching, Throwing out for Love |
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202 | (1) |
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A Noiseless Patient Spider |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (3) |
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204 | (2) |
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206 | (3) |
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206 | (3) |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (2) |
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Questions and Suggestions |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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213 | (2) |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (1) |
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216 | (1) |
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217 | (2) |
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| Appendix I Questions for Discussing and Revising Poetry |
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| Appendix II A Brief Glossary of Forms |
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222 | (4) |
| Acknowledgments |
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226 | (5) |
| Index of Authors and Titles |
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| Index of Terms |
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