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Carcanet, 1989 - Poetry - 96 pages

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Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869. Outward appearances suggest that she had a typical Victorian family and life, but Eavan Boland recounts how the life of Charlotte Mew was anything but normal ... Read full review

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Contents

The Poets
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After the Irish of Egan ORahilly
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Song
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Copyright

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About the author (1989)

Eavan Boland, author of, most recently, "The Lost Land", is professor of English at Stanford University.

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TitleSelected poems
AuthorEavan Boland
PublisherCarcanet, 1989
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized5 Mar 2008
ISBN0856357413, 9780856357411
Length96 pages
Subjects › 

Poetry / Continental European
Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Poetry / General
  
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