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Preface, 2003 | |
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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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Introduction | |
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Bibliographical Note | |
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Odes and Epigrams (1797-1799) | |
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Prayer for the Incurable | |
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Epigrams (1797) | |
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Good Advice | |
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Advocatus Diaboli | |
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The Excellent | |
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Descriptive Poetry | |
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False Popularity | |
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To Diotima | |
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Diotima ('Bliss of the heavenly Muse ...') | |
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Bonaparte | |
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Empedocles | |
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To the Fates | |
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Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent and, strange to them ...') | |
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To Her Genius | |
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Plea for Forgiveness | |
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Then and Now | |
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The Course of Life ('High my spirit aspired ...') | |
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Brevity | |
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Human Applause | |
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Home ('Content the boatman turns ...') | |
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Good Faith | |
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Her Recovery ('Nature, she who's your friend ...') | |
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The Unpardonable | |
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To the Young Poets | |
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To the Germans ('Do not laugh ...') | |
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The Sanctimonious Poets | |
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To the Sun-God | |
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Sunset | |
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Socrates and Alcibiades | |
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To Our Great Poets | |
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Epigrams (1799) | |
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[characters not reproducible] | |
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Sophocles | |
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The Angry Poet | |
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The Jokers | |
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The Root of All Evil | |
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Palingenesis | |
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The Later Odes (1798-1803) | |
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Vanini | |
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Man | |
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Hyperion's Song of Fate | |
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In my boyhood days ... | |
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If to those warning ones ... | |
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The Capricious | |
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The Spirit of the Age | |
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Evening Fantasy | |
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In the Morning | |
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The River Main | |
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My Possessions | |
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Palinode | |
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To a Princess of Dessau | |
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To Princess Augusta of Homburg | |
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Though every day I follow ... | |
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Go down, then, lovely sun ... | |
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And little knowledge ... | |
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The German's Song | |
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Peace | |
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To the Germans ('Never laugh at ...') | |
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Rousseau | |
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Heidelberg | |
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Heidelberg (Alcaic version) | |
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The Gods | |
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The Neckar | |
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Home ('Content the boatman turns ...') | |
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Love | |
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The Course of Life ('More you also desired ...') | |
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Her Recovery ('Nature, look, your most loved ...') | |
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The Farewell (second version) | |
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Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent, unknown ...') | |
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Return to the Homeland | |
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The Ancestral Portrait | |
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The Departed | |
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Exhortation (second version) | |
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Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter | |
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The Dioscuri | |
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Sung Beneath the Alps | |
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The Poet's Vocation | |
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Voice of the People (second version) | |
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The Blind Singer | |
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Chiron | |
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Tears | |
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To Hope | |
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Vulcan | |
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The Poet's Courage (first version) | |
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Timidness | |
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The Fettered River | |
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Ganymede | |
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Hexameters and Elegies (1800-1801) | |
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The Archipelago | |
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Menon's Lament for Diotima | |
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The Traveller | |
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Stuttgart | |
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Bread and Wine | |
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Homecoming | |
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The Death of Empedocles | |
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Second Version | |
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Act One | |
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Act Two (Conclusion) | |
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Third Version | |
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Act One | |
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Draft for the Concluding Chorus of Act One | |
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Plan for the Subsequent Acts | |
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The Hymns (1799-1805) | |
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The Ages of Life | |
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The Nook at Hardt | |
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Half of Life | |
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As on a holiday ... | |
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For Mother Earth | |
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At the Source of the Danube | |
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The Journey | |
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Germania | |
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The Rhine | |
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Conciliator, you that no longer believed in ... | |
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Celebration of Peace | |
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The Only One (first version) | |
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The Only One (second version) | |
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Patmos | |
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Patmos (fragments of the later version) | |
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Remembrance | |
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The Ister | |
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Mnemosyne (third version) | |
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The Nymph | |
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Fragments of Other Hymns (1800-1805) | |
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German Song | |
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As slowly birds migrate ... | |
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As on to sea coasts ... | |
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Home ('And no one knows...') | |
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For when the grape-vine's sap... | |
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On fallow foliage... | |
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What is the life of men... | |
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What is God?... | |
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To the Virgin Mary | |
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The Titans | |
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At one time I questioned the Muse... | |
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But when the heavenly... | |
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For formerly, Father Zeus... | |
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The Eagle | |
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You firmly built Alps... | |
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Whatever is Nearest (third version) | |
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And to feel with the lives... | |
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Colombo | |
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When there's a flaming... | |
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For from the abyss... | |
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Narcissi... | |
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...the Vatican... | |
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In Socrates' Time | |
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In the Forest | |
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Greece (first version) | |
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Greece (second version) | |
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Greece (third version) | |
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Pindar Fragments and Commentary (1805) | |
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Unfaithfulness of Wisdom | |
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Of Truth | |
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Of Repose | |
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Of the Dolphin | |
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The Supreme | |
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Old Age | |
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The Infinite | |
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The Sanctuaries | |
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The Life-Giving | |
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Last Poems (1807-1843) | |
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Friendship, love... | |
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If from the distance... | |
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Fame | |
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On the Birth of a Child | |
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The world's agreeable things... | |
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To Zimmer ('About a man I say...') | |
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When down from heaven... | |
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To Zimmer ('The lines of life...') | |
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Conviction | |
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Spring ('When new enchantment...') | |
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The Merry Life | |
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The Walk | |
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The Churchyard | |
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Contentment | |
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Not any day... | |
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Autumn ('The legends that depart...') | |
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Summer ('The harvest field...') | |
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Spring ('New day descends...') | |
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Summer ('When then the blooms...') | |
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Winter ('When pale snow...') | |
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Winter ('The field is bare...') | |
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Summer ('Still you can see...') | |
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Autumn ('Nature's bright gleam...') | |
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Summer ('Brooks thread the valleys...') | |
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Summer ('The days go by...') | |
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Winter ('When past, unseen...') | |
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Spring ('When springtime from the depth...') | |
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In lovely blueness... | |
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Notes | |
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Index of German First Lines | |
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Index of German Titles | |
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Index of English First Lines | |
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Index of English Titles | |