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The Poetry of Victorian Scientists Style, Science and Nonsense

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The Prelude The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)

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Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author

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Selections From the Poems of George Darley

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Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

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Wordsworth and Coleridge Lyrical Ballads

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The Age of Anxiety A Baroque Eclogue

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This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Defying Gravity by Roger McGough. Connected by English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, Literary Criticism. Authors featured include Roger McGough, Cecil, Jerrold E. Hogle, Alastair Fowler, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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