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LETTER 1 by WILLIAM EMPSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU WERE AMUSED TO FIND YOU TOO COULD FEAR
Last Line: AND HIDE A TUMULT NEVER TO BE TOLD

Poem Sources:

THE CHATTO BOOK OF MODERN POETRY, 1915-1955. NEW ED.
  DAY LEWIS, CECIL (ED.)
  (1959)
 
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM EMPSON. EDITED BY JOHN HAFFENDEN.
  EMPSON, WILLIAM
  (2000)
 



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