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American Book Review, v. 4, July-August, 1982. © 1982 by The American Book Review. Reproduced by permission.— American Poetry, v. 7, Spring, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—The Americas Review, v. 17, Spring, 1989. Arte Público Press—University of Houston. Reproduced by permission.—Books in Canada, v. 13, December, 1984, for “On the Brink” by Lucille King-Edwards. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Canadian Forum, v. 687, March, 1979 for “II: Poems for People who Don’t Read Poems” by Pamela McCallum; v. LXIV, January, 1985 for “Coming Through” by Sam Solecki. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Canadian Literature, n. 36, Spring, 1968 for “Controlling the Jungle” by Douglas Barbour; n. 112, Spring, 1987 for “A Note on Ondaatje’s ‘Peter’: A Creative Myth” by Gillian Jarding-Russell; n. 137, Summer, 1993 for “Narrative in Michael Ondaatje’s ‘The Man with Seven Toes’” by Ray Wilton. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Canadian Poetry, n. 6, Spring-Summer, 1982. Reproduced by permission.—The Chesterton Review, v. II, Spring-Summer, 1976 for “Chesterton and T. S. Eliot” by Russell Kirk; v. VI, Fall-Winter, 1979-80 for “Chesterton as Satirist” by David J. Dooley. © 1976, 1979-80 The Chesterton Review. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Contemporary Literature, v. XXI, Autumn, 1980. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Poetry, v, IV, 1982 for “Monsters Wrapped in Silk: James Merrill’s Country of a Thousand Years of Peace” by J. D. McClatchy. © Contemporary Poetry 1982. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Dalhousie Review, v. 44, Summer, 1964. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Discurso Literario, v. 5, Autumn, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Literature, v. 23, Spring, 1996. Copyright 1996 by Western Illinois University. Reproduced by permission.—German Life & Letters, v. XXI, October, 1967. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.—Germanic Notes, v. 22, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—The Iowa Review, v. 25, Spring-Summer, 1992 for “The Childhood Worries, Or Why I Became a Writer” by Gary Soto. Copyright © 1992 by The University of Iowa. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author and Bookstop Literary Agency.—Journal of Modern Literature,

v. 2, September, 1971. © Temple University 1971. Reproduced by permission.—Latin American Literary Review,v. XVIII, January-June, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—The Literary Review, v. 31, Spring, 1988 for “Moving the Dark to Wholeness: The Elegies of Wendell Berry” by Jeffrey Alan Triggs. Copyright © 1988 by Fairleigh Dickinson University. Reproduced by permission of the author.—MLN, v. 97, April 3, 1982. © 1982 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Poetry Studies, v. XI, 1982. Copyright 1982 by Media Study, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The Nation, New York, v. 230, May 3, 1980. © 1980 The Nation magazine/ The Nation Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The New York Herald Tribune, v. 4, July 15, 1928. Copyright 1928, 1956 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—The New York Review of Books, v. X, April 11, 1968; v. XLII, May 11, 1995. Copyright © 1968, 1995 Nyrev, Inc. Both reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—The New York Times Book Review, September 21, 1975. Copyright © 1975 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission./ March 27, 1927; July 1, 1928; June 14, 1931; August 23, 1931; December 13, 1936. Copyright 1927, renewed 1955; copyright 1928, renewed 1956; copyright 1931, renewed 1959; copyright 1936, renewed 1964 by The New York Times Company. All reproduced by permission.—Northwest Review, n. XXI, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Northwest Review. Reproduced by permission.—Parnassus: Poetry in Review, v. 8, Fall-Winter, 1979 for “I Can Hear You Now” by Peter Cooley; v. 9, Spring-Summer, 1981 for “Drowning as One of the Fine Arts” by Paul West. Copyright © 1979, 1981 Poetry in Review Foundation, NY. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Renascence,v. XXIII, Spring, 1971. © copyright, 1971, Marquette University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Revista Chicano-Riqueña, v. XI, Summer, 1983. Arte Público Press—University of Houston. Reproduced by permission.—South Atlantic Bulletin, v. XXXIX, May, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Reproduced by permission.—Southwest Review, v. 67, Winter, 1981. © 1981 Southern Methodist University. Reproduced by permission.— Studies in Canadian Literature, v. 8, 1983 for “‘I Send You a Picture,’ Ondaatje’s Portrait of Billy the Kid” by Judith Owens. Copyright by the author. Reproduced by permission of the editors.—Studies in the Literary Imagination,v.XX

VII, Fall, 1994. Copyright 1994 Department of English, Georgia State University. Reproduced by permission.—The Times Literary Supplement, June 25, 1931; n. 4045, October 10, 1980; n. 4816, July 21, 1995. Copyright The Times Supplements Limited 1931, 1980, 1995. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—The University of Mississippi Studies in English, v. V, 1984-87. Copyright © 1984-87 The University of Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.— Thought, v. LXVI, June, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Fordham University Press. Reproduced by permission of Fordham University Press, New York.

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Barbour, Douglas. From Michael Ondaatje. Twayne Publishers, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved.—Collier, Michael. From a forward to Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems. By William Meredith. Tri-Quarterly Books, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Michael Collier. Reproduced by permission.—de Selincourt, Ernest. From Oxford Lectures on Poetry. Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press, 1934. Reprinted by Books for Libraries Press, Inc., 1967. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Demetz, Peter. From “Hans Magnus Enzensberger,” in Postwar German Literature. Pegasus, 1970.—Ehrenpreis, Irvin. From “Merrill” in Poetries of America: Essays on the Relation of Character in Style. Edited by Daniel Albright. University of Virginia Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by the Rector of Visitors of the University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission.—Ganz, Robin. From Updating the Literary West. Copyright © 1997, Western Literature Association. Reproduced by permission.—Howard, Richard. From Alone with America: The Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950. Thames and London, 1965. Reproduced by permission.— Johnson, William C. From “Tangible Mystery in the Poetry of Wendell Berry” in Wendell Berry. Edited by Paul Merchant. Confluence Press, Inc., 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Confluence Press, Inc.—Kalstone, Davis. From “Transparent Things” in Modern Critical Views: James Merrill. Edited by David Bloom. Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Chelsea House Publishers. Reproduced by permission.—Kinney, Arthur F. From Dorothy Parker, Revised. Twayne Publishers. 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved.—Labrie, Ross. From James Merrill. Twayne, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by G.K. Hall & Company. All rights reserved.—Mason, Michael Tomasek. From “Poetry and Masculinity on the Anglo/Chicano Border: Gary Soto, Robert Frost, and Robert Hass” in The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era. Alilki Barnstone, Robert Tomasek Mason, and Carol J. Singley, eds. © 1997 University Press of New England. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Moffett, Judith. From James Merrill: An Introduction to the Poetry. Copyright © 1984 Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ondaatje, Michael with Jon Pearce. From Twelve Voices: Interviews with Canadian Poets. Borealis Press 1980. Copyright © Borealis Press Limited. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rotella, Guy. From Three Contemporary Poets of New England: William Meredith, Philip Booth and Peter Davison. Twayne, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by G. K. Hall. All rights reserved.—Stanford, Donald E. From In the Classic Mode: The Achievement of Robert Bridges. Associated University Presses, 1978. © 1978 by Associated University Presses. Reproduced by permission.—Taylor, Henry. From Compulsory Essays on Recent American Poets. Louisiana State University Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Williams, Charles. From Poetry at Present. The Clarendon Press, 1930. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Yenser, Stephen. From The Consuming Myth: The Works of James Merrill. Harvard University Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by the President of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Berry, Wendell, photograph by James Baker Hall. Reproduced by permission of James Baker Hall.—Bridges, Robert, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Chesterton, G. K., photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, photograph by Miriam Berkley. Reproduced by permission of Miriam Berkley.—Meredith, William, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Merrill, James, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Ondaatje, Michael, photograph by Thomas Victor. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of Thomas Victor.—Parker, Dorothy, 1933, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Soto, Gary, photograph by M. L. Marinelli. Chronicle Books.