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“Waiting Both” (Thomas Hardy)

A star looks down at me, And says: "Here I and you Stand, each in our degree: What do you mean to do,–– Mean to do?"

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Making Statements About “The wind blew words…” (Thomas Hardy)

Making Statements About "The wind blew words..." (Thomas Hardy)

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“I set so much on this Assumption. Now it’s failed.”

Delay, well, travellers must expect Delay. For how long? No one seems to know.

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“No poet ever invented such a scheme of curse….” (John Jay Chapman)

"No poet ever invented such a scheme of curse, so all-involving, so remotely rising in an obscure past and holding an entire nation in its mysterious bondage—a scheme based on natural law, led forward...

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WORDSWORTH’S “MUTABILITY” SONNET

WORDSWORTH'S “MUTABILITY” SONNET

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“A Song of a Young Lady. To her Ancient Lover” (John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester)

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“What better proof could we have of how thoroughly the plagiarists have...

"I hate sonnets because they are the most literary of all the forms of verse—even our best English poets are on their best literary behavior in the sonnet—their best foreign manner gloved and scented...."

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“Shakespeare mingles everything, runs line into line, embarrasses sentences...

"Shakespeare mingles everything, runs line into line, embarrasses sentences and metaphors; before one idea has burst its shell, another is hatched and clamorous for disclosure."

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“I’m always interested, you know, when I have three or four stanzas, in the...

I’m always interested, you know, when I have three or four stanzas, in the way I lay the sentences in them. I’d hate to have the sentences all lie the same in the stanzas."--Robert Frost

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We cannot shake off the lethargy now at noonday. Sleep lingers all our...

We cannot shake off the lethargy now at noonday. Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. All things swim and glitter.

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“Such was that happy Garden-state, while Man there walk’d without a mate…”

"Such was that happy Garden-state, while Man there walk'd without a mate..."

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“There is no question that the power to throw your sitter into a receptive...

“There is no question that the power to throw your sitter into a receptive mood by a pass or two which shall give you his virgin attention is necessary to any artist."

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Cold War Frost

Cold War Frost

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The Rose Family

The Rose Family

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Dante and the Henchman; or, the profession of English

Dante and the Henchman; or, the profession of English

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“I did not know until this year that Keats spoke with a cockney accent”:...

"I did not know until this year that Keats spoke with a cockney accent": Richard Rodriguez's Prose

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Spoiled Actresses, Robert Frost, “Engaging Cowardice,” and Battle-Cries

Spoiled Actresses, Robert Frost, "Engaging Cowardice," and Battle-Cries

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“The Wife of His Youth”: Charles Chesnutt

"The Wife of His Youth": Charles Chesnutt

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How Literary Criticism Arises

From an interview Noam Chomsky lately gave to The Atlantic (the interviewer is Yarden Katz): If you ask neuroscientists why understanding the brain is so difficult, they give you very intellectually...

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