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The Black Scholar, v. 3, 1972. Copyright 1972 by The Black Scholar. Reproduced by permission.—Encyclia, v. 66, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, v. 2, 2nd Quarter, 1984. Copyright © 1984 Washington State University. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Explicator, v. 47, Summer, 1989; v. 54, Spring, 1996. Copyright 1989, 1996 by Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—The Georgia Review, v. XXXVI, Winter, 1982. Copyright, 1982, by the University of Georgia. Reproduced by permission.—Keats-Shelley Journal, v. XXIV, 1975. © Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc. 1975. Reproduced by permission.— The Massachusetts Review, v. XXVIII, Summer, 1987. © 1987. Reproduced from The Massachusetts Review, The Massachusetts Review, Inc. by permission.—Papers on Language & Literature, v. 23, Winter, 1987; v. 29, Spring, 1993. Copyright © 1987, 1993 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.—Renascence, v. VI, Spring, 1954. Copyright, 1954, Marquette University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Humanities Review, v. 29, Winter, 1995. Copyright 1995 by Auburn University. Reproduced by permission.— The Southern Review, Louisiana State University, v. 25, July, 1989 for "Blackness Blessed: The Writings of Lucille Clifton" by Hank Lazer. Copyright 1989 by the author. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Studies in Contemporary Satire, 1976. Reproduced by permission.— Studies in Romanticism, v. 11, Spring, 1972. Copyright 1972 by the Trustees of Boston University. Reproduced by permission.—The Victorian Newsletter, n. 17, Spring, 1960 for "Art and Reality in 'My Last Duchess' " by Stanton Millet. Reproduced by permission of The Victorian Newsletter and the author.

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Auden, W. H. For "Musee des Beaux Arts" in Collected Poems. Random House, Inc., 1940. Copyright 1940, renewed © 1988 by W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd. for the Literary Estate of W. H. Auden.—Berryman, John. From The Freedom of the Poet. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976. Copyright © 1940, 1968, 1976 by John Berryman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.—Bleau, N. Arthur. From "Robert Frost's Favorite Poems," in Frost: Centennial Essays III. Edited by Jac Tharpe. University Press of Mississippi, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by the University Press of Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.—Breslin, James E. B. From William Carlos Williams: An American Artist. University of Chicago Press, 1985. Copyright © 1970, 1985 by James E. Breslin. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The University of Chicago Press.—Clifton, Lucille, pmiss rosie" copyright © 1987 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted from Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980, by Lucille Clifton, with the permission of BOA Editions, Ltd., Rochester, NY.—cummings, e. e. For "l(a" in Complete Poems: 1904-1962. Edited by George James Firmage. Liveright. Copyright © 1958, 1986, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1985 by Geroge James Firmage. Reprinted by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.—Dickey, James. From Babel to Byzantium. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968. Reproduced by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.—Dove, Rita. For "This Life" in The Yellow House on the Corner. Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Rita Dove. Used by permission of the author.—Frost, Robert. For "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Co. Copyright 1951 by Robert Frost. Used by arrangement with Henry Holt and Co.—Fryxell, Donald R. From "Understanding 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'," in Robert Frost's Chicken Feathers and Other Lectures from the 1968 Augustana College NDEA English Institute. Edited by Arthur R. Huseboe. The Augustana College Press, 1969. Reproduced by permission.—Hayden, Robert E. For "Those Winter Sundays" in Angle of Ascent, New and Selected Poems. Liveright, 1975. Copyright © 1966 by Robert Hayden. Reprinted by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.—Hughes, Langston. For "Harlem" in The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Edited by Arnold Rampersad. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.— Jemie, Onwuchewa. From Langston Hughes: An Introduction to Poetry. Columbia University Press, 1976. Copyright © 1976 Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of the publisher.—Johnson, James Weldon. For "The Creation" in God's Trombones. Viking Press, 1927. Copyright 1927 by Viking Press, Inc. Renewed © 1955 by Grace Nail Johnson. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.—McCluskey, Audrey T. From "Tell the Good News: A View of the Works of Lucille Clifton," in Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation. Edited by Maria Evans. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984. Copyright © 1983 by Mari Evans. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.—McGann, Jerome J. From The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1985. © Jerome F. McGann, 1985. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Murdy, Louise Baughan. From Sound and Sense in Dylan Thomas's Poetry. Mouton, & Co., 1966. © copyright 1966 Mouton & Co., Publishers. Reproduced by permission of Mouton de Gruyter, a Division of Walter de Gruyter & Co.—Plath, Sylvia. For "Mirror" in The Collected Poems. Edited by Ted Hughes. Harper & Row, 1963. Originally appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright © 1963 by Ted Hughes. Used by permission of HarperCollins, Inc.—Thomas, Dylan. For "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" in The Poems of Dylan Thomas. New Directions. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation and David Higham Associates Limited.—Wagner, Jean. From Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. Translated by Kenneth Douglas. University of Illinois Press, 1973. Translation copyright by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of Jean Wagner.

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