from
My friend and mentor, Rick Anthoney
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Edited by Bruce Murphy
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Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, Co-Editors
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The Pursuit of Poetry
by Louis Untermeyer
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1969
Figures of Speech
by Arthur Quinn
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Lyric Verse
The Odyssey Press, New York, 1962
Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry
by Laurence Perrine, Southern Methodist University
Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1956
Currents in Poetry
by Richard Corbin, Hunter College High School
The Macmillan Company, New York, 1968
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by Lionel Trilling, Columbia University
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by J. B. Priestley and Josephine Spear
Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1963
The Art and Craft of Poetry
by Lawrence John Zillman
The Macmillan Company, New York, 1966
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W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York, 1965, 1970
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Edited by J. Paul Hunter, Emory University
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Selected and Edited by Alphonso Gerald Newcomber and Alice E. Andrews
Scott, Foresman and Company, Chicago - New York, 1910
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Cambridge Edition Text, as edited by William Aldis Wright
Garden City Books, Garden City, New York, 1936
Current Literary Terms
by A. F. Scott, M.A.
St Martin's Press, New York, 1965
The Performing Voice in Literature
by Robert Beloof, University of California, Berkeley
Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Toronto, 1966
Doorways to Poetry
by Louis Untermeyer
Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., 1938
