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Seamus Heaney and the end of the poetic career
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Remembering John Ashbery
John Ashbery’s well-spent youth
John Florio — lexicographer, raconteur, and supposed model for Shakespeare’s schoolmaster Holofernes, in Love’s Labour’s Lost — was born in London in 1553 to an unidentified Englishwoman and an Italian Protestant who’d…
Or, The decline of American verse
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