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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Hap | |
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Neutral Tones | |
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The Subalterns | |
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The Darkling Thrush | |
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The Man He Killed | |
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Channel Firing | |
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'I Found Her Out There' | |
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After a Journey | |
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from Satires of Circumstance | |
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II. In Church | |
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VI. In the Cemetery | |
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The Pity of It | |
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In Time of 'the Breaking of Nations' | |
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Snow in the Suburbs | |
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The Harbour Bridge | |
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He Never Expected Much | |
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God's Grandeur | |
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"As kingfishers catch fire" | |
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The Windhover | |
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Pied Beauty | |
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Spring and Fall | |
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Inversnaid | |
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"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day" | |
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"No worst, there is none." | |
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[Carrion Comfort] | |
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Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves | |
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That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection | |
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Justus quidem tu es, Domine | |
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Gunga Din | |
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Sestina of the Tramp-Royal | |
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from Epitaphs of the War | |
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Common Form | |
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A Dead Statesman | |
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To the Rose upon the Rood of Time | |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree | |
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Who Goes with Fergus? | |
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The Valley of the Black Pig | |
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September 1913 | |
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The Witch | |
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The Peacock | |
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The Dolls | |
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A Coat | |
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The Wild Swans at Coole | |
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Easter 1916 | |
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The Second Coming | |
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A Prayer for my Daughter | |
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Sailing to Byzantium | |
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The Tower | |
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Leda and the Swan | |
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Among School Children | |
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Byzantium | |
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Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop | |
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Lapis Lazuli | |
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Under Ben Bulben | |
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The Circus Animals' Desertion | |
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Politics | |
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The Farmer's Bride | |
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Fame | |
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Arracombe Wood | |
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On the Road to the Sea | |
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Monsieur Qui Passe | |
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Miss Loo | |
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The Listeners | |
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The Old Summerhouse | |
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The Starling | |
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The Other | |
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Adlestrop | |
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The Wasp Trap | |
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A Cat | |
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Rain | |
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Bitter Sanctuary | |
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Italian Pictures | |
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from Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose | |
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English Rose | |
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Der Blinde Junge | |
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Autumn | |
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The Embankment | |
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Conversion | |
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from Fragments | |
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As a Fowl | |
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Divorce | |
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Self Analysis | |
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Meditation at Kew | |
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Unde the Oak | |
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Pomegranate | |
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Snake | |
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Swan | |
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Willy Wet-Leg | |
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Andraitx.--Pomegranate Flowers | |
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Bavarian Gentians | |
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A Working Party | |
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The Rear-Guard | |
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The General | |
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from Facade | |
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4. Ass-Face | |
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6. The Bat | |
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22. Fox Trot | |
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37. Sir Beelzebub | |
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The Canticle of the Rose | |
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Still-life | |
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"Children of wealth in your warm nursery" | |
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News-reel | |
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The Old Gods | |
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The Three Mirrors | |
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The Horses | |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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Gerontion | |
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The Waste Land | |
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from Four Quartets | |
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Little Gidding | |
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Corfe | |
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The Jew | |
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Break of Day in the Trenches | |
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Louse Hunting | |
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Dead Man's Dump | |
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First Time In | |
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La Gorgue | |
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Laventie | |
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The Bare Line of the Hill | |
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The Bohemians | |
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Sea-Marge | |
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from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle | |
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[Sic Transit Gloria Scotiae] | |
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[The Barren Fig] | |
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[Yank Oot Your Orra Boughs] | |
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On a Raised Beach | |
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from In Memoriam James Joyce | |
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Nelly Trim | |
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East London Cemetery | |
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King Duffus | |
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Anne Donne | |
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De Civitate Hominum | |
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The Six Who Were Hanged | |
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Homage to Hieronymus Bosch | |
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Dulce et Decorum Est | |
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Strange Meeting | |
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Arms and the Boy | |
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Disabled | |
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A Slice of Life | |
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The Music Hall | |
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Hymn to Love | |
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I'd have loved you as you deserved had we been frogs | |
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from In Parenthesis | |
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from Part 7: The five unmistakable marks | |
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from The Anathemata | |
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from I: Rite and Fore-Time | |
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III: Angle-Land | |
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A, a, a, Domine Deus | |
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Warning to Children | |
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The Legs | |
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To Juan at the Winter Solstice | |
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The White Goddess | |
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from Parallax | |
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Forget Me Not | |
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A Plea | |
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Auction! | |
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from First Book of Odes | |
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3. "I am agog for foam" | |
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8. "Loud intolerant bells" | |
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15. "Nothing" | |
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17. "Now that sea's over that island" | |
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28. "You leave" | |
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30. The Orotava Road | |
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from Briggflatts: I, Coda | |
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from Second Book of Odes | |
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11. "Boasts time mocks cumber Rome" | |
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12. "Now we've no hope of going back" | |
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Souvenir de Monsieur Poop | |
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Not Waving but Drowning | |
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My Hat | |
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The Celts | |
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Pretty | |
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Black March | |
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from The Ecliptic | |
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Cancer, or, The Crab | |
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from The Great Hunger: I, IX | |
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Father Mat | |
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Canal Bank Walk | |
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Headrock | |
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from Advent: I | |
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Plenum and Vacuum | |
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Villanelle | |
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Reflection from Rochester | |
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Sonnet | |
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Enueg I | |
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Enueg II | |
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Ooftish | |
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"Bones wrenched, weak whimper, lids wrinkled ..." | |
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The Secret Agent | |
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The Watershed | |
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"Consider this and in our time" | |
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A Bride in the 30's | |
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Spain | |
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from Sonnets from China: VI, VII | |
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Musee des Beaux Arts | |
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In Memory of W. B. Yeats | |
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September 1, 1939 | |
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In Memory of Sigmund Freud | |
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No Time | |
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At the Grave of Henry James | |
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In Praise of Limestone | |
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from Horae Canonicae: Nones | |
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Ode to Terminus | |
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An Eclogue for Christmas | |
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Valediction | |
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Snow | |
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Carrickfergus | |
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Corybantic | |
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Photogravure | |
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Different | |
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Interruption | |
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Lough Derg | |
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Obstacle Basilisk | |
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from Gods with Stainless Ears: IV, V | |
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High Street, Edinburgh | |
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Nude in a fountain | |
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Celtic cross | |
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Intrusion | |
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The Island | |
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Going Westwards | |
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Strafford | |
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Obsessional | |
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Delusions I | |
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Delusions III | |
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Delusions V | |
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Delusions VII | |
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Countries of the Dead II | |
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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower | |
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Our eunuch dreams | |
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To-day, this insect | |
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Over Sir John's hill | |
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A Letter to John Donne | |
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The Desert | |
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Au Clair de la Lune | |
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Place | |
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And the Seventh Dream is the Dream of Isis | |
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Baptism | |
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The Rites of Hysteria | |
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The Cubical Domes | |
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Song | |
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Ideas of Disorder at Torquay | |
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Portman Restaurant | |
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Leap Year | |
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The Nightfishing | |
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A Note to the Difficult One | |
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Language Ah Now You Have Me | |
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Johnie Raw Prays for His Lords and Maisters | |
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Simplify me when I'm dead | |
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These grasses, ancient enemies | |
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Mersa | |
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Dead Men | |
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Cairo Jag | |
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Aristocrats | |
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Vergissmeinnicht | |
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How to Kill | |
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[wan do tree] | |
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[Lion Lenin Leonora] | |
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[Alevin Bars Causapscal] | |
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Church Going | |
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Toads | |
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Nothing To Be Said | |
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Water | |
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The Whitsun Weddings | |
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An Arundel Tomb | |
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High Windows | |
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Going, Going | |
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Homage to a Government | |
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This Be The Verse | |
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The Explosion | |
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Hearing Russian Spoken | |
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Rejoinder to a Critic | |
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Rodez | |
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Out of East Anglia | |
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A Conditioned Air | |
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Inditing A Good Matter | |
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Letter to My Father from London | |
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From Lucy: Englan a University | |
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Orkney Lyrics | |
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Sea-Poppy 1 | |
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Sea-Poppy 2 | |
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First Words | |
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Georgic | |
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Bird Appeal | |
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Blue Crepe | |
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Choices | |
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Fountain | |
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On Its Own | |
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Hearing Elgar Again | |
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The Prose of Walking Back to China | |
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Aesthetic | |
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Distinctions | |
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Saving the Appearances | |
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Swimming Chenango Lake | |
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Prometheus | |
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Annunciation | |
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The Plaza | |
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The Garden | |
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Baggot Street Deserta | |
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Ritual of Departure | |
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George Fox, from his Journals | |
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from Twenty Words, Twenty Days: XVII-XX | |
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Thighs Gripping | |
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The Trout | |
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A Bright Day | |
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The Cage | |
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This Neutral Realm | |
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The Well Dreams | |
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The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of his Death | |
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Confessions of the Life Artist | |
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Moly | |
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Seesaw | |
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A Sketch of the Great Dejection | |
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Lament | |
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Marriage | |
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Exile | |
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For Brighton, Old Bawd | |
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View of a Pig | |
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Pike | |
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Out | |
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Pibroch | |
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Wodwo | |
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Crow Hears Fate Knock on the Door | |
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from Gaudete | |
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Flounders | |
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from City | |
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The Entertainment of War | |
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The Poplars | |
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"Walking through the suburb at night" | |
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From an English Sensibility | |
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from A Furnace | |
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Introit | |
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II. The Return | |
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Death of a Son | |
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First it was Singing | |
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Dandelion | |
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A Daisy | |
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A Word about Freedom and Identity in Tel-Aviv | |
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The Sofas, Fogs, and Cinemas | |
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The Little Cardboard Suitcase | |
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The Ice-cream Boom Towns | |
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Against Death | |
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Young Women with the Hair of Witches and No Modesty | |
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The British Museum Smile | |
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Mothers and Child | |
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Genesis | |
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Ovid in the Third Reich | |
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September Song | |
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History as Poetry | |
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from Mercian Hymns: I-XII, XXVII-XXX | |
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from The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy: 4, 5 | |
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Respublica | |
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from The Triumph of Love: XXIII, XXV, XXXV, XXXIX-XLIV, LV, LXI-LXIV, CXLVII-CL | |
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Against Coupling | |
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The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers | |
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Leaving the Tate | |
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v. | |
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Czargrad | |
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Wedding Day | |
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You've Ruined My Evening/You've Ruined My Life | |
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South America | |
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from Logbook: pages 106, 453 | |
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from Sentenced to Death | |
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"sentenced he gives a shape" | |
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"curiously the whole thing had begun" | |
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"reversals of performance levels" | |
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from Eternal Sections | |
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"in black tunics, middle-aged" | |
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"brilliance of the orange lily" | |
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"thoughts are in real time" | |
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Out of the Picture | |
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Saxon Landings | |
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Man Jack | |
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The Slave Ship | |
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The Sea | |
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Towards the End of a Century | |
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Grandmotherpoem | |
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The Mother's Tale | |
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Good Old Harry | |
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Inaugural Address | |
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When the geography was fixed | |
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The Blue Mosque | |
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Salt Water | |
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Bogland | |
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North | |
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Singing School | |
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Oysters | |
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The Toome Road | |
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The Underground | |
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from Station Island: VII, XII | |
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The Mud Vision | |
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from Lines on the Liver: 1, 2, 10, 11, 17 | |
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from Excavations, Part One | |
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from Book 1: Distant Points | |
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"the body in its final commerce" | |
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"folded in river clay" | |
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"carefully dismembered" | |
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from Book 2: This Carol They Began That Hour | |
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"Sing to me" | |
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"Meaning spills" | |
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"Leaving a simple state" | |
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from Book 3: Vacated Thrones | |
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"Ganesa dances" | |
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"'I arrived at a place mute of light'" | |
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The Snow Party | |
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A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford | |
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Courtyards in Delft | |
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A Garage in Co. Cork | |
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The Veil Poem | |
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Six Glasgow Poems | |
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A Priest Came on at Merkland Street | |
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An Enquiry into Two Inches of Ivory | |
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A Martian Sends a Postcard Home | |
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The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish | |
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Listen. This is the Noise of Myth | |
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from Outside History | |
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9: In Exile | |
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from four novels | |
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1. African Mission | |
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defamiliarising -- *:38 | |
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Mummers' Strut | |
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A History Lesson from My Son on Hadrian's Wall | |
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Energy | |
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The Double D Economy | |
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from Stet | |
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Thucydidean | |
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Cordelia: or, 'A Poem Should Not Mean, But Be' | |
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Mirror's Song | |
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Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990 | |
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The Turlough | |
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Cry Help | |
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Tohu-bohu | |
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Affections must not | |
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Lure, 1963 | |
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When it's time to go | |
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Pastoral | |
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Wherever you are, be somewhere else | |
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Knowing in the real world | |
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from Hellhound Memos | |
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Reekie | |
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The Stumbling Block its Index | |
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Answering a New Year Letter, 1989 | |
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Self-Portrait in a '90s Bestiary | |
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An Essay on Translation | |
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The Fat Black Woman Remembers | |
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The Fat Black Woman Versus Politics | |
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Skanking Englishman Between Trains | |
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Long-Man | |
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Tulips | |
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The Seed-Picture | |
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Slips | |
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Aviary | |
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The War Ending | |
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The Albert Chain | |
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Brought Forward | |
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Starlings | |
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Garb | |
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Hill Figures | |
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Quoof | |
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Meeting the British | |
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Incantata | |
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Eclipsing Binaries | |
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La Quinta del Sordo | |
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Where? | |
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Mi Revalueshanary Fren | |
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from Steps | |
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Fire | |
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from Sarn Helen | |
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"bayonetted" | |
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"snap crackle and pop" | |
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"You've got some lip" | |
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Phrase Book | |
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The Mad Cow in Love | |
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Mad Cow Dance | |
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And If | |
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The Wedding | |
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Grand Hotel | |
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Standing Female Nude | |
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And How Are We Today? | |
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Psychopath | |
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Translating the English, 1989 | |
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Poet for Our Times | |
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'stranger' | |
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The Materialization of Soap 1947 | |
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Internal Exile 1 | |
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Coolie Odyssey | |
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from Turner: I, II, XVIII, XX, XXIV, XXV | |
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Colonies of Belief | |
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from Arbor Vitae: I | |
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Riddym Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem) | |
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Cherry Tree Garden | |
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Money | |
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The SUN | |
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from The Adoption Papers | |
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Chapter 7: Black Bottom | |
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The Anxiety of Information | |
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The Postcards of Scotland | |
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Les jets de la Poupee | |
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A Garden of Tears | |
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from Pitch: Part Three | |
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Taxonomy | |
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Blackbird/Jackdaw/Turdus/corvus/merula/monedula | |
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Section VIII | |
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Poem | |
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Index of Authors | |
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Index of Titles | |