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Basker, Michael. From “Dislocation and Relocation in Akhmatova’s Rekviem,” in The Speech of Unknown Eyes: Akhmatova’s Readers on Her Poetry. Edited by Wendy Rosslyn. Astra Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Astra Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Courthope, W. J. From “An English View of the Limitations of Morris’s Poetry,” in William Morris: The Critical Heritage. Edited by Peter Faulkner. Routledge & Kegan Ltd., 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Peter Faulkner. Reproduced by permission.—Driver, Sam. From “Anna Akhmatova,” in European Writers: The Twentieth Century. Edited by George Stade. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Driver, Sam N. From Anna Akhmatova. Twayne Publishers, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by Twayne Publishers. Reproduced by permission of the Gale Group.—Gabbin, Joanne V. From “The Poetry of Sterling A. Brown: A Study in Form and Meaning,” in African American Literary Criticism, 1773 to 2000. Edited by Hazel Arnett Ervin. Twayne Publishers, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Twayne Publishers. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Garnett, Richard. From “Review of The Defence of Guenevere, by William Morris,” in William Morris: The Critical Heritage. Edited by Peter Faulkner. Routledge & Kegan, Ltd., 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Peter Faulkner. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Henderson, Stephen A. From “Sterling Brown: 1901-1989,” in African American Writers. Edited by Lea Baechler and A. Walton Litz. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Ketchian, Sonia I. From “An Inspiration for Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem: Hovannes Tumanian,” in Studies in Russian Literature In Honor of Vsevolod Setchkarev. Edited by Julian W. Connolly and Sonia I. Ketchian. Slavica Publishers, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Sonia I. Ketchian. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Kinnahan, Linda A. From “Reading Barbara Guest: The View from the Nineties,” in The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets. Edited by Terence Diggory and Stephen Paul Miller. National Poetry Foundation, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by the National Poetry Foundation. Reprinted by permission of the author.—Oberg, Charlotte H. From A Pagan Prophet: William Morris. University of Virginia Press, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by the Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission of the University of Virginia Press.—Pater, Walter. From “Poems by William Morris,” in Pre-Raphaelitism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by James Sambook. University of Chicago Press, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.—Reeder, Roberta. From Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet. St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Roberta Reeder. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC.—Rowell, Charles H. From “Sterling A. Brown and the Afro-American Folk Tradition,” in Harlem Renaissance Re-examined: A Revised and Expanded Edition. Edited by Victor A. Kramer and Robert A. Russ. The Whitston Publishing Company, 1997. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Stuckey, Sterling. From The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown. Selected by Michael S. Harper. Harper & Row Publishers, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Sterling A. Brown. Reproduced by permission.—Wells, David N. From Anna Akhmatova: Her Poetry. Berg, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by David N. Wells. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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