Books I Love: Being a Selection of 100 Titles for a Home Library, with Added Comment on Other Books, Many Authors and the Delights of Reading |
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... poets whose works we want in fairly complete editions in our own library so that we will always have them at hand for reference and refreshment . At least , I can't do without them . Love of poetry is a lifelong addiction with me . One ...
... poets whose works we want in fairly complete editions in our own library so that we will always have them at hand for reference and refreshment . At least , I can't do without them . Love of poetry is a lifelong addiction with me . One ...
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... poetry , too , but not so completely and , when shelf space is limited , not in such large quantities . I have on my own shelves " complete " editions of Walt Whitman , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , William Cullen Bryant , Oliver Wendell ...
... poetry , too , but not so completely and , when shelf space is limited , not in such large quantities . I have on my own shelves " complete " editions of Walt Whitman , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , William Cullen Bryant , Oliver Wendell ...
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... poetry I had heard or read at home or had learned in school and college . Until I came across this verse in some ... poet put in words all that I felt in those days when I tramped the colorful roads and fields of that rural area with ...
... poetry I had heard or read at home or had learned in school and college . Until I came across this verse in some ... poet put in words all that I felt in those days when I tramped the colorful roads and fields of that rural area with ...
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