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Across English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, Literary Criticism, and Poetry — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Complete Poems by William Empson.

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Bonnie Jean A Collection Of Papers And Poems Relating To The Wife Of Robert Burns (1898) — John Dawson Ross

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The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective — P. Davidhazi

The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective

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Poems of this War by Younger Poets — Patricia Ledward

Poems of this War by Younger Poets

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The Wife of Bath A Biography — Marion Turner

The Wife of Bath A Biography

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Nature Lyrics And Other Poems (1906) — Martha Martin

Nature Lyrics And Other Poems (1906)

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Literature and Dissent in Milton’s England — Sharon Achinstein

Literature and Dissent in Milton’s England

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Images of Community in Old English Poetry — Hugh Magennis

Images of Community in Old English Poetry

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The Canterbury Tales ‘The Translation Is Certainly the Best We Have Ever Had.’ — Geoffrey Chaucer

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Beowulf A Verse Translation — Michael Alexander

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Michael Alexander

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