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Philip Larkin’s “The Trees”
Photo: 4028mdk09, via Wikimedia Commons It is spring now, and very hard not to feel in clichés. Especially with daffodils everywhere—and very cheap they are, too. “Telephone flowers,” a friend of mine...
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Still Golden After All These Years
A mask of Wordsworth made in 1815. The most famous version of Wordworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” or “Daffodils”—that landmark of English Romanticism, a pedagogical perennial that’s inspired...
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Philip Larkin’s “The Trees”
Photo: 4028mdk09, via Wikimedia Commons It is spring now, and very hard not to feel in clichés. Especially with daffodils everywhere—and very cheap they are, too. “Telephone flowers,” a friend of mine...
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Still Golden After All These Years
A mask of Wordsworth made in 1815. The most famous version of Wordworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” or “Daffodils”—that landmark of English Romanticism, a pedagogical perennial that’s inspired...
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Jamaica Kincaid’s Rope of Live Wires
IN HER STUDY AT HOME IN NORTH BENNINGTON, 2018. INTERVIEW STILL FRAME COURTESY OF STEPHANIE BLACK. The first novel I read by Jamaica Kincaid was Annie John, the first novel she wrote. She drafted it—as...
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