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| I |
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| II |
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Finishes: On Ambition and Survival |
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Fourteen Fragments in Lieu of a Review |
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Poetry in a Visual Culture |
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In the Flux That Abolishes Me |
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| III |
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Notes on Poetry and Religion |
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| IV |
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The Druid Stone: Thomas Hardy |
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A New Mode of Damnation?: Hart Crane |
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Pure Honey, Pure Gall: Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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So Fierce and Sweet the Song: George Mackay Brown |
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The Created and the Made: Janet Lewis and the Uses of Convention |
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Free of Our Humbug: Basil Bunting |
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| V |
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| Notes |
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| About the Author |
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