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American Literature. 37,906 likes · 124,245 talking about this. That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings.

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The eighteenth century was the great Age of Enlightenment, but also Romanticism. The Augustan or neoclassical poetry of Alexander Pope and others event…

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The Old Stoic

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss; Truly that hour foretold Sorrow to this. The dew of the morning Sank c

July 1971 | James Applewhite, James Atlas, Etta Blum, Stewart Conn, Tom Disch, Gelacio Guillermo, Erica Jong, John Reed, F. Reeve, Richard Schramm, Charles Simic, David Wagoner, Jerome McGann, Robert Shaw