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| Why Literature Matters |
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| ``The Canon'' |
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| What Is Literature? |
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| Thinking Critically about Literature |
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Fiction: Reading, Responding, Writing |
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The Elephant in the Village of the Blind |
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15 | (6) |
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21 | (11) |
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A Conversation With My Father |
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32 | (5) |
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37 | (16) |
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Student Writing: Nina Sullivan, The Heart of Storytelling in ``A Conversation with My Father'' and ``Flight Patterns'' |
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53 | (4) |
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57 | (250) |
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57 | (49) |
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62 | (19) |
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81 | (25) |
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Narration and Point of View |
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106 | (13) |
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108 | (6) |
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Hills Like White Elephants |
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114 | (5) |
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119 | (46) |
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123 | (10) |
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133 | (29) |
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Student Writing: Bethany Qualls, Character and Narration in ``Cathedral'' |
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162 | (3) |
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165 | (30) |
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166 | (15) |
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181 | (14) |
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195 | (20) |
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197 | (10) |
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207 | (8) |
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215 | (22) |
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217 | (7) |
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224 | (13) |
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237 | (70) |
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237 | (32) |
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269 | (17) |
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286 | (21) |
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307 | (80) |
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
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307 | (7) |
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314 | (2) |
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316 | (12) |
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328 | (4) |
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332 | (15) |
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347 | (9) |
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356 | (7) |
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363 | (3) |
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The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket |
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366 | (3) |
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A Good Man is Hard to Find |
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369 | (11) |
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380 | (5) |
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385 | (2) |
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Biographical Sketches: Fiction Writers |
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387 | (11) |
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Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing |
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398 | (18) |
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399 | (4) |
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399 | (1) |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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400 | (2) |
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The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
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402 | (1) |
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403 | (7) |
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404 | (1) |
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405 | (1) |
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406 | (1) |
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407 | (3) |
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410 | (1) |
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Practicing Reading: Some Poems on Love |
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411 | (5) |
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone |
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411 | (1) |
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To My Dear and Loving Husband |
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411 | (1) |
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
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412 | (1) |
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On Her Loving Two Equally |
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412 | (1) |
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413 | (1) |
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414 | (2) |
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416 | (144) |
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416 | (10) |
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416 | (1) |
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417 | (2) |
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419 | (2) |
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Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane |
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421 | (1) |
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422 | (2) |
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424 | (1) |
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425 | (1) |
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Many Tones: Poems About Family Relationships |
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426 | (5) |
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After Making Love We Hear Footsteps |
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426 | (1) |
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427 | (1) |
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427 | (1) |
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428 | (1) |
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429 | (2) |
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Speaker: Whose Voice Do We Hear? |
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431 | (15) |
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431 | (2) |
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Death of a Young Son by Drowning |
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433 | (1) |
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Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister |
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434 | (3) |
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437 | (1) |
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438 | (1) |
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She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways |
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439 | (1) |
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440 | (1) |
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441 | (2) |
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Women have loved before. . . |
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443 | (1) |
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I, being born a woman. . . |
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443 | (1) |
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444 | (1) |
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself |
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444 | (2) |
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Situation and Setting: What Happens? Where? When? |
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446 | (9) |
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447 | (3) |
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450 | (2) |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont |
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452 | (2) |
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454 | (1) |
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455 | (4) |
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455 | (1) |
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456 | (2) |
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458 | (1) |
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459 | (2) |
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Full many a glorious morning have I seen |
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459 | (1) |
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460 | (1) |
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460 | (1) |
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461 | (4) |
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461 | (2) |
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463 | (1) |
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463 | (2) |
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465 | (1) |
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465 | (6) |
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The golf links lie so near the mill |
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465 | (1) |
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At the San Francisco Airport |
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466 | (2) |
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468 | (1) |
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes |
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469 | (1) |
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470 | (1) |
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[I dwell in Possibility---] |
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471 | (1) |
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472 | (3) |
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472 | (1) |
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473 | (1) |
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473 | (1) |
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474 | (1) |
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475 | (1) |
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Picturing: The Languages of Description |
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475 | (6) |
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477 | (1) |
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478 | (1) |
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478 | (1) |
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479 | (2) |
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481 | (9) |
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold |
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481 | (2) |
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483 | (1) |
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484 | (1) |
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? |
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485 | (1) |
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486 | (1) |
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Batter my heart, three-personed God |
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486 | (1) |
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487 | (1) |
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487 | (2) |
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489 | (1) |
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner |
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489 | (1) |
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The Night Has a Thousand Eyes |
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489 | (1) |
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Francis William Bourdillon |
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[Wild Nights---Wild Nights!] |
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490 | (1) |
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490 | (11) |
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Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941 |
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491 | (2) |
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493 | (1) |
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494 | (1) |
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494 | (1) |
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495 | (1) |
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496 | (1) |
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497 | (2) |
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499 | (2) |
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501 | (19) |
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501 | (1) |
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502 | (3) |
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505 | (4) |
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509 | (1) |
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510 | (1) |
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There was a young girl from St. Paul |
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510 | (1) |
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510 | (1) |
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To the Memory of Mr. Oldham |
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511 | (2) |
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513 | (3) |
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore |
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516 | (1) |
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517 | (1) |
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A narrow Fellow in the Grass |
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517 | (1) |
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When to Her Lute Corinna Sings |
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518 | (1) |
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Homage to the Empress of the Blues |
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519 | (1) |
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520 | (20) |
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520 | (3) |
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523 | (2) |
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525 | (3) |
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528 | (1) |
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529 | (2) |
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531 | (2) |
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533 | (1) |
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[The Wind begun to knead the Grass---] |
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533 | (1) |
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Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame |
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534 | (1) |
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535 | (2) |
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537 | (3) |
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540 | (3) |
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543 | (10) |
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544 | (1) |
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My lady's presence makes the roses red |
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545 | (1) |
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A Sonnet Is a Moment's Monument |
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546 | (1) |
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547 | (1) |
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548 | (1) |
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548 | (1) |
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549 | (1) |
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549 | (1) |
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When I consider how my light is spent |
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550 | (1) |
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When our two souls stand up |
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550 | (1) |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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551 | (1) |
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What lips my lips have kissed |
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551 | (1) |
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552 | (1) |
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun |
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552 | (1) |
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553 | (1) |
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553 | (7) |
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night |
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555 | (1) |
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555 | (2) |
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557 | (1) |
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558 | (2) |
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560 | (11) |
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560 | (2) |
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562 | (1) |
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563 | (2) |
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565 | (1) |
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566 | (1) |
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567 | (1) |
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568 | (1) |
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[My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun--] |
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568 | (1) |
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Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H. |
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569 | (2) |
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571 | (65) |
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571 | (1) |
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572 | (1) |
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573 | (1) |
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573 | (1) |
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574 | (1) |
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575 | (2) |
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577 | (1) |
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[Because I could not stop for Death--] |
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577 | (1) |
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I stepped from Plank to Plank |
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578 | (1) |
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[We do not play on Graves---] |
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578 | (1) |
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[The Brain---is wider than the Sky---] |
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579 | (18) |
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[She dealt her pretty words like Blades---] |
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580 | (1) |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
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580 | (1) |
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581 | (1) |
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582 | (1) |
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582 | (2) |
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584 | (1) |
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
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584 | (1) |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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585 | (3) |
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588 | (1) |
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589 | (1) |
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590 | (1) |
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591 | (1) |
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591 | (1) |
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Harlem (A Dream Deferred) |
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592 | (1) |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
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592 | (1) |
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Come, my Celia, let us prove |
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593 | (1) |
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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer |
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594 | (1) |
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On Seeing the Elgin Marbles |
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594 | (1) |
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595 | (2) |
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597 | (2) |
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599 | (1) |
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599 | (2) |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
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601 | (1) |
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601 | (2) |
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603 | (1) |
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604 | (1) |
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604 | (1) |
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605 | (2) |
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607 | (3) |
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In a Station of the Metro |
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610 | (1) |
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd |
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610 | (1) |
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Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter |
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611 | (1) |
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611 | (2) |
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Not marble, nor the gilded monuments |
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613 | (1) |
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614 | (1) |
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614 | (1) |
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615 | (3) |
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618 | (1) |
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619 | (2) |
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621 | (1) |
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622 | (2) |
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624 | (1) |
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On Being Brought from Africa to America |
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625 | (1) |
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Facing West from California's Shores |
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625 | (1) |
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626 | (1) |
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A Noiseless Patient Spider |
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626 | (1) |
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Love Calls Us to the Things of This World |
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627 | (1) |
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Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798 |
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628 | (4) |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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632 | (1) |
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632 | (1) |
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633 | (1) |
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634 | (2) |
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Biographical Sketches: Poets |
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636 | (14) |
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Drama: Reading, Responding, Writing |
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650 | (17) |
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653 | (14) |
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667 | (256) |
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667 | (113) |
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676 | (40) |
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716 | (64) |
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783 | (40) |
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923 | (70) |
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993 | (53) |
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1046 | (67) |
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Biographical Sketches: Playwrights |
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1113 | (3) |
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1116 | (71) |
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Paraphrase, Summary, and Description |
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1116 | (4) |
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The Elements of the Essay |
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1120 | (10) |
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1130 | (14) |
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1144 | (17) |
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Quotation, Citation, and Documentation |
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1161 | (14) |
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1175 | (12) |
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| Glossary |
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1 | (10) |
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11 | (10) |
| Index of Authors |
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21 | (4) |
| Index of Titles and First Lines |
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