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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “Address to the Graduating Class” from ESSAYS, SPEECHES AND PUBLIC LETTERS by William Faulkner, edited by James B. Meriwether. Copyright 1965 by Random House, Inc. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. and The Random House Group Ltd. “The Soul selects her own Society” reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright 1951, 1955, 1979 by The President and Fellows of Harvard College. “July Storm” from DOWN HALF THE WORLD by Elizabeth Coatsworth. Copyright 1968 by Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster. “Night Clouds” from THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF AMY LOWELL. Copyright 1955 by Houghton Mifflin Co. Renewed 1983 by Houghton Mifflin Co., Brinton P. Roberts and G. D’Andelot Belin, Esq. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co. All rights reserved. “There’s a certain slant of light” reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright 1951, 1955, 1979 by The President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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CONTENTS Quick Reference Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Table of Literary Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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