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Introductory Statement | |
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On Becoming a Poet | |
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Poetic Form: A Personal Encounter | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Verse Forms | |
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Overview | |
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The Villanelle | |
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The Villanelle at a Glance | |
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The History of the Form | |
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The Contemporary Context | |
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Villanelle of His Lady's Treasures | |
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The House on the Hill | |
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Missing Dates | |
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The Waking | |
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One Art | |
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | |
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The World and the Child | |
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Condemned Site | |
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By the Sound | |
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Saturday at the Border | |
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Under the Hill | |
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Villanelle | |
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Reading Scheme | |
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Villanelle for the Middle of the Night | |
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Close-Up of a Villanelle: "One Art" | |
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The Sestina | |
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The Sestina at a Glance | |
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The History of the Form | |
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The Contemporary Context | |
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Ye wastefull woodes, bear witness of my woe | |
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from Old Arcadia | |
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Sestine 4 from Parthenophil and Parthenophe | |
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Sestina: Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni | |
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Sestina | |
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Sestina | |
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Sestina of the Tramp-Royal | |
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Sestina: Altaforte | |
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After the Trial | |
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The Book of Yolek | |
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The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina | |
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Nani | |
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Close-Up of a Sestina: "Sestina: Altaforte" | |
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The Pantoum | |
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The Pantoum at a Glance | |
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The History of the Form | |
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The Contemporary Context | |
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In Town | |
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Pantoum of the Great Depression | |
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Parents' Pantoum | |
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Pantoum | |
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Grandmother's Song | |
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The Method | |
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Close-Up of a Pantoum: "Pantoum of the Great Depression" | |
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The Sonnet | |
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The Sonnet at a Glance | |
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The History of the Form | |
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The Contemporary Context | |
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? | |
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Farewell to Love | |
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from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus | |
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Sonnet XXIII: Methought I saw my late espoused saint | |
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Holy Sonnet: At the round earth's imagined corners | |
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Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | |
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Ozymandias | |
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Bright Star | |
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from Monna Innominata | |
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from Sonnets from the Portuguese (XLIII) | |
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Carrion Comfort | |
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What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why | |
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From the Dark Tower | |
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Epic | |
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from "Tulips and Chimneys" | |
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To My Mother | |
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After the Bomb Tests | |
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A Game of Chess | |
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The Haw Lantern | |
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Heat | |
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The Roman Baths at Nimes | |
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Half a Double Sonnet | |
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Sonnet | |
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Close-Up of a Sonnet: "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" | |
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The Ballad | |
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The Ballad at a Glance | |
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The History of the Form | |
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The Contemporary Context | |
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The Cherry-tree Carol | |
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Sir Patrick Spens | |
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The Wife of Usher's Well | |
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My Boy Willie | |
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The Changeling | |
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from The Ballad of Reading Gaol | |
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Peter and John | |
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Bagpipe Music | |
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Death in Leamington | |
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The Tale of Custard the Dragon | |
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We Real Cool | |
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Riverbank Blues | |
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Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen | |
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Close-Up of a Ballad: "We Real Cool" | |
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Blank Verse | |
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Blank Verse at a Glance | |
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The History of the Form | |
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The Contemporary Context | |
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from his translation of The Aeneid | |
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from Tamburlaine the Great | |
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from Julius Caesar | |
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from Paradise Lost | |
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from Beachy Head | |
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from The Prelude | |
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Ulysses | |
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Rain | |
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Directive | |
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Lying | |
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Stanzas in Bloomsbury | |
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Close-Up of Blank Verse: "Directive" | |
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The Heroic Couplet | |
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The Heroic Couplet at a Glance | |
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The History of the Form | |
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from The Description of Cooke-ham | |
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The Author to Her Book | |
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A Letter to Daphnis, April 2, 1685 | |
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from Absalom and Achitophel | |
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from The Vanity of Human Wishes | |
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To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works | |
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from The Deserted Village | |
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from An Essay on Criticism | |
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My Last Duchess | |
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Strange Meeting | |
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The J Car | |
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Close-Up of the Heroic Couplet: "My Last Duchess" | |
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The Stanza | |
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The Stanza at a Glance | |
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The History of the Form | |
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The Contemporary Context | |
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from Troilus and Criseyde | |
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from The Faerie Queene | |
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They Flee from Me | |
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Easter Wings | |
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The Tyger | |
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So We'll Go No More A-Roving | |
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I died for Beauty--but was scarce | |
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The Convergence of the Twain | |
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The Song of the Mad Prince | |
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A Quoi Bon Dire | |
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Song of the Son | |
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The Tropics in New York | |
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Night Song at Amalfi | |
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Not Waving but Drowning | |
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On Teaching the Young | |
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Those Winter Sundays | |
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Yes | |
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Warming Her Pearls | |
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Epith | |
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Close-Up of a Stanza: "I died for Beauty--but was scarce" | |
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Meter | |
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Meter at a Glance | |
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A Brief Checklist of Further Reading on Meter | |
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Shaping Forms | |
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Overview | |
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The Elegy | |
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Overview | |
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Lament for the Makaris | |
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If Ever Hapless Woman Had a Cause | |
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On My First Son | |
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Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred | |
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Lycidas | |
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Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper | |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
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R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida | |
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O Captain! My Captain! | |
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Dover Beach | |
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To His Love | |
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Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter | |
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Tears in Sleep | |
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In Memory of W. B. Yeats | |
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from The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket | |
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Dream Song 324 | |
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To the Dead | |
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In Memoriam Paul Celan | |
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The Legend | |
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The Elegy for New York | |
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Tiara | |
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Supernatural Love | |
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Mirror in February | |
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Iris | |
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Child Burial | |
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Song | |
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The Pastoral | |
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Overview | |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | |
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from Love's Labor's Lost | |
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The Garden | |
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To My Sister | |
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Ode on a Grecian Urn | |
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Loveliest of Trees | |
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The Wife of Llew | |
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Urban Pastoral | |
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Remembered Morning | |
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The Thought-Fox | |
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The Explosion | |
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Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota | |
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Midsummer, Tobago | |
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The Bear | |
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Fog | |
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Let Evening Come | |
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Smoke | |
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Meditation at Lagunitas | |
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From the Porch | |
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A Walrus Tusk from Alaska | |
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Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night | |
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The Broad Bean Sermon | |
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Of the Finished World | |
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Tornados | |
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Loss | |
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Waiting for the Storm | |
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An Engraving of Blake | |
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Pygmalion's Image | |
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Mock Orange | |
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The Black Walnut Tree | |
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Gateposts | |
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Heart of the Matter | |
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Shoeing the Currach | |
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The Ode | |
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Overview | |
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Ode to the West Wind | |
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To Autumn | |
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Ode | |
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The Fire of Driftwood | |
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from The Bridge | |
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The Paper Nautilus | |
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Australia 1970 | |
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Miracle Glass Co. | |
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The Blue Swallows | |
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America | |
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Ode to Meaning | |
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Perhaps the World Ends Here | |
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Open Forms | |
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Overview | |
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The Circus Animals' Desertion | |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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I, Too | |
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The Idea of Order at Key West | |
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Spring and All | |
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America | |
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Ave Maria | |
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Uncertain Oneiromancy | |
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Daddy | |
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Diving into the Wreck | |
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Move | |
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The Language of the Brag | |
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The Colonel | |
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The German Army, Russia, 1943 | |
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Starlight Scope Myopia | |
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Reading Plato | |
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Close-Up of Open Forms: "Diving into the Wreck" | |
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A Brief Glossary | |
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Biographies and Further Reading | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Credits | |
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General Index | |
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Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines | |