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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| Thomas Hardy (England, 1840-1928). | |
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| The Darkling Thrush. The Convergence of the Twain. Channel Firing | |
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| Joseph Conrad (Poland/England, 1857-1924). | |
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| The Secret Sharer | |
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| William Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865-1939). | |
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| A Coat. The Hawk. On Being Asked for a War Poem. The Second Coming. Sailing to Byzantium. Lapis Lazuli | |
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| Robert Frost (USA, 1874-1963). | |
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| After Apple-Picking. Nothing Gold Can Stay. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Acquainted with the Night. Design | |
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| E.M. Forster (England, 1879-1970). | |
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| Me, Them and You. The Other Side of the Hedge | |
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| Wallace Stevens (USA, 1879-1955). | |
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| Anecdote of the Jar | |
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| James Joyce (Ireland, 1882-1941). | |
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| Araby | |
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| Virginia Woolf (England, 1882-1941). | |
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| Monday or Tuesday. Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car | |
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| E.J. Pratt (Canada, 1883-1964). | |
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| Newfoundland Seamen | |
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| William Carlos Williams (USA, 1883-1963). | |
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| The Red Wheelbarrow. The Use of Force. This Is Just To Say | |
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| D.H. Lawrence (England, 1885-1930). | |
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| Snake. The Horse-Dealer's Daughter. Ezra Pound (USA, 1885-1972) | |
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| Ancient Wisdom, Rather Comic. In a Station of the Metro. A Pact | |
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| H.D. (USA, 1886-1961). | |
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| Sea Rose. Oread | |
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| T.S. Eliot (USA/England, 1888-1965). | |
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| The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. The Hollow Men. Journey of the Magi | |
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| Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand, 1888-1923). | |
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| The Fly | |
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| John Crowe Ransom (USA, 1888-1974). | |
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| Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter | |
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| Wilfred Owen (England, 1893-1918). | |
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| Dulce et Decorum Est. Arms and the Boy. Strange Meeting | |
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| e.e. cummings (USA, 1894-1962). | |
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| buffalo bill's. spring is like a perhaps hand. next to of course god america i. somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond. anyone lived in a pretty how town | |
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| W.W.E. Ross (Canada, 1894-1966). | |
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| Spring Song | |
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| James Thurber (USA, 1894-1963). | |
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| The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble | |
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| Louise Bogan (USA, 1897-1970). | |
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| Women | |
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| Ernest Hemingway (USA, 1899-1961). | |
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| In Another Country | |
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| F.R. Scott (Canada, 1899-1985). | |
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| Laurentian Shield. Bonne Entente | |
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| Langston Hughes (USA, 1902-1967). | |
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| Theme for English B | |
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| George Orwell (England, 1903-1950). | |
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| Politics and the English Language | |
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| William Plomer (South Africa, 1903-1973). | |
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| The Boer War. The Devil-Dancers | |
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| Earle Birney (Canada, 1904-1995). | |
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| Anglosaxon Street. The Bear on the Delhi Road. Wind-Chimes in a Temple Ruin | |
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| Patrick Kavanagh (Ireland, 1905-1967). | |
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| Spring Day | |
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| Samuel Beckett (Ireland, 1906-1989). | |
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| Catatrosphe | |
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| W.H. Auden (England/USA, 1907-1973). | |
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| Musee des Beaux Arts. The Unknown Citizen | |
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| A.D. Hope (Australia, 1907- ). | |
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| Australia | |
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| Hugh MacLennan (Canada, 1907- ). | |
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| On Living in a Cold Country | |
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| Louis MacNeice (England, 1907-1963). | |
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| When We Were Children. The Habits | |
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| Theodore Roethke (USA, 1908-1963). | |
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| My Papa's Waltz. The Waking. Some Remarks on Rhythm | |
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| Sinclair Ross (Canada, 1908-1996). | |
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| One's a Heifer | |
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| Ralph Gustafson (Canada, 1909-1995). | |
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| Of Green Steps and Laundry. Partial Argument | |
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| A.M. Klein (Canada, 1909-1972). | |
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| A Modest Proposal. Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga. Political Meeting. The Rocking Chair | |
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| Dorothy Livesay (Canada, 1909-1996). | |
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| Bartok and the Geranium | |
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| Wallace Stegner (Canada/USA, 1909-1993). | |
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| The Town Dump | |
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| Elizabeth Bishop (USA/Brazil, 1911-1979). | |
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| The Unbeliever. Sandpiper Sestina | |
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| Northrop Frye (Canada, 1912-1991). | |
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| Symbolism of the Unconscious | |
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| Patrick White (Australia, 1912-1990). | |
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| Clay | |
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| George Barker (England, 1913- ). | |
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| To My Mother | |
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| Muriel Rukeyser (USA, 1913-1980). | |
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| The Children's Orchard | |
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| Lewis Thomas (USA, 1913- ). | |
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| Notes on Punctuation | |
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| Randall Jarrell (USA, 1914-1965). | |
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| The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | |
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| Henry Reed (England, 1914-1986). | |
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| Naming of Parts | |
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| Dylan Thomas (Wales, 1914-1953). | |
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| The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower. A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London. Fern Hill. Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | |
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| Judith Wright (Australia, 1915- ). | |
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| The Beanstalk, Meditated Later. At Cooloola | |
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| P.K. Page (Canada, 1916- ). | |
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| The Stenographers. Cook's Mountain. Poor Bird | |
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| Robert Lowell (USA, 1917-1977). | |
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| For the Union Dead | |
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| Margaret Avison (Canada, 1918- ). | |
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| Butterfly Bones; or Sonnet Against Sonnets. The Swimmer's Moment | |
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| Al Purdy (Canada, 1918- ). | |
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| Lament for the Dorsets | |
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| Rosemary Dobson (Australia, 1920- ). | |
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| The Bystander. Canberra Morning | |
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| Gwen Harwood (Australia, 1920- ). | |
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| Father and Child | |
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| Edward Morgan (Scotland, 1920- ). | |
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| Opening the Cage | |
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| Howard Nemerov (USA, 1920-1991). | |
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| The Town Dump. Santa Claus. To David, about his Education. Learning by Doing. An Old Colonialist Imperialist | |
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| Amos Tutuola (Nigeria, 1920- ). | |
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| Ajao and the Active Bone | |
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| Richard Wilbur (USA, 1921- ). | |
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| Love Calls Us to the Things of this World. Piazza di Spagna, Early Morning | |
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| Mavis Gallant (Canada, 1921- ). | |
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| From the Fifteenth District | |
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| Philip Larkin (England, 1922-1985). | |
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| Church Going. Toads | |
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| Eli Mandel (Canada, 1922-1991). | |
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| The Madwomen of the Plaza de Mayo | |
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| Hone Tuwhare (New Zealand, 1922- ). | |
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| A Song in Praise of a Favourite Humming Top | |
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| Nadine Gordimer (South Africa, 1923-). | |
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| A Writer's Freedom | |
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| Denise Levertov (USA, 1923-1997). | |
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| The Rainwalkers. The Novel | |
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| Louis Simpson (Jamaica/USA, 1923). | |
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| My father in the night commanding No. The Island Mentality | |
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| Nissim Ezekiel (India, 1924- ). | |
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| Night of the Scorpion | |
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| Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1924- ). | |
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| The Reservoir | |
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| Robert Creeley (USA, 1926- ). | |
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| The Whip. The Window | |
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| Allen Ginsberg (USA, 1926-1997). | |
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| A Supermarket in California | |
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| Elizabeth Jennings (England, 1926- ). | |
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| The Settlers. Attempted Suicides | |
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| Margaret Laurence (Canada, 1926-1987). | |
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| Horses of the Night | |
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| John Ashbery (USA, 1927- ). | |
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| The Instruction Manual | |
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| W.S. Merwin (USA, 1927- ). | |
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| In the Winter of My Thirty-Eighth Year. When the War is Over | |
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| Phyllis Webb (Canada, 1927- ). | |
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| Marvell's Garden. The Days of the Unicorns | |
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| Richard Selzer (USA, 1928- ). | |
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| The Knife | |
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| Anne Sexton (USA, 1928-1974). | |
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| Cinderella | |
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| Adrienne Rich (USA, 1929- ). | |
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| When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision | |
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| Chinua Achebe (Nigeria, 1930- ). | |
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| Girls at War | |
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| Bruce Dawe (Australia, 1930- ). | |
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| Life-Cycle | |
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| Ted Hughes (England, 1930- ). | |
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| The Thought-Fox. Wodwo. Night Arrival of Sea-Trout | |
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| Derek Walcott (St. Lucia/Trinidad, 1930- ). | |
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| A Far Cry From Africa. Chapter VI Gros-Ilet | |
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| Jay Macpherson (Canada, 1931- ). | |
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| The Boatman. The Fisherman | |
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| Alice Munro (Canada, 1931- ). | |
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| Boys and Girls | |
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| George MacBeth (England, 1932- ). | |
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| Owl. Marshall | |
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| Sylvia Plath (USA, 1932-1963). | |
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| The Colossus. You're | |
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| C.K. Stead (New Zealand, 1932- ). | |
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| Poem to Suppose the Bird | |
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| John Updike (USA, 1932- ). | |
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| Beer Can | |
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| Edward Lucie-Smith (Jamaica/England, 1933- ). | |
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| Imperialists in Retirement | |
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| Alden Nowlan (Canada, 1933-1983). | |
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| The Bull Moose | |
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| David Malouf (Australia, 1934-). | |
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| A Charm Against the Dumps | |
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| Audre Lorde (USA, 1934- ). | |
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| The Day They Eulogized Mahalia. A Trip on the Staten Island Ferry | |
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| Wole Soyinka (Nigeria, 1934- ). | |
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| `No!' He Said (For Nelson Mandela) | |
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| Zulfikar Ghose (India/Pakistan/USA, 1935- ). | |
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| Come, Sailor. The Remove | |
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| Joy Kogawa (Canada, 1935- ). | |
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| from Obasan | |
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| Carol Shields (USA/Canada, 1935- ). | |
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| Mrs Turner Cutting the Grass | |
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| Daryl Hine (Canada, 1936- ). | |
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| Bluebeard's Wife | |
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| Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya, 1936- ). | |
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| from Decolonising the Mind | |
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| Tony Harrison (England, 1937- ). | |
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| On Not Being Milton | |
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| Lola Lemire Tostevin (Canada, 1937- ). | |
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| Listening to Lady Day | |
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| Jack Hodgins (Canada, 1938- ). | |
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| The Leper's Squint | |
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| Les Murray (Australia, 1938- ). | |
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| Louvres. The Assimilation of Background | |
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| Tom Raworth (England, 1938- ). | |
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| Mirror Mirror on the Wheel | |
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| Margaret Atwood (Canada, 1939- ). | |
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| It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers. Hesitations Outside the Door. Great Unexpectations | |
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| Seamus Heaney (Ireland, 1939- ). | |
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| Personal Helicon. The Forge. The Wife's Tale | |
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| Patrick Lane (Canada, 1939- ). | |
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| The Children of Bogota | |
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| Clark Blaise (USA/Canada, 1940- ). | |
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| To Begin, To Begin | |
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| Stephen Jay Gould (USA, 1941- ). | |
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| Evolution as Fact and Theory | |
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| Gwendolyn MacEwen (Canada, 1941-1987). | |
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| The Discovery | |
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| Derek Mahon (Ulster, 1941- ). | |
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| Rage for Order. The Banished Gods | |
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| Marilyn Hacker (USA, 1942- ). | |
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| Fourteen | |
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| Daphne Marlatt (Australia/Canada, 1942- ). | |
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| musing with mothertongue | |
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| Arthur Nortje (South Africa, 1942-1970). | |
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| Letter from Pretoria Central Prison | |
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| Michael Wilding (England/Australia, 1942- ). | |
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| The Words She Types | |
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| Nikki Giovanni (USA, 1943- ). | |
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| Kidnap Poem | |
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| Thomas King (USA/Canada, 1943- ). | |
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| A Coyote Columbus Story | |
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| Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka/Canada, 1943- ). | |
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| Prometheus, with Wings. King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens. Bearhug | |
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| Eavan Boland (Ireland, 1944- ). | |
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| An Irish Childhood in England 1951 | |
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| Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (Malaysia/USA, 1944- ). | |
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| Pantoun for Chinese Women | |
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| Robert Bringhurst (USA/Canada, 1946-). | |
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| Bone Flute Breathing | |
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| Chrystos (USA, 1946- ). | |
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| Soft. Shame On! | |
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| Bill Manhire (New Zealand, 1946- ). | |
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| An Outline | |
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| Lorna Goodison (Jamaica/Scotland, 1947- ). | |
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| The Nanny. Road of the Dread | |
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| Medbh McGuckian (Northern Ireland, 1950- ). | |
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| The Hollywood Bed. A Dream in Three Colours | |
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| Guy Vanderhaeghe (Canada, 1951- ). | |
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| Cages | |
