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AUBADE by WILLIAM EMPSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: HOURS BEFORE DAWN WE WERE WOKEN BY THE QUAKE
Last Line: THE HEART OF STANDING IS WE CANNOT FLY
Subject(s): FAREWELL; JAPAN;

Poem Sources:

THE OXFORD ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH POETRY; VOL. 2, BLAKE TO HEANEY.
  WAIN, JOHN (COMP. & ED.)
  (1986)
 
THE OXFORD BOOK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH VERSE.
  LARKIN, PHILIP (ED.)
  (1973)
 
THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE.
  KEEGAN, PAUL (ED.)
  (2001)
 
THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE.
  RICKS, CHRISTOPHER (ED.)
  (1999)
 
THE FABER BOOK OF 20TH CENTURY VERSE; AN ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE IN BRITAIN, 1900-1950.
  HEATH-STUBBS, JOHN (ED.)
  (1953)
 
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM EMPSON. EDITED BY JOHN HAFFENDEN.
  EMPSON, WILLIAM
  (2000)
 



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