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SUCCESS by WILLIAM EMPSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I HAVE MISLAID THE TORMENT AND THE FEAR
Last Line: YOU SHOULD BE PRAISED FOR TAKING THEM AWAY
Subject(s): DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR (1821-1881); FEAR;

Poem Sources:

THE OXFORD BOOK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH VERSE.
  LARKIN, PHILIP (ED.)
  (1973)
 
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM EMPSON. EDITED BY JOHN HAFFENDEN.
  EMPSON, WILLIAM
  (2000)
 



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