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INVITATION TO JUNO by WILLIAM EMPSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: LUCRETIUS COULD NOT CREDIT CENTAURS
Last Line: COULD NOT PROFESSOR CHARLES DARWIN %GRAFT ANNUAL UPON PERENNIAL TREES?

Poem Sources:

CHIEF MODERN POETS OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA. 5TH EDITION. EDITED BY GERALD DEWITT SANDERS, JOHN HERBERT NELSON, AND M.L. ROSENTHAL.
  SANDERS, GERALD DEWITT (ED.)
  (1970)
 
THE FABER BOOK OF MODERN VERSE. NEW ED.
  ROBERTS, MICHAEL (ED.)
  (1951)
 
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM EMPSON. EDITED BY JOHN HAFFENDEN.
  EMPSON, WILLIAM
  (2000)
 



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