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PLAYBOY by RICHARD WILBUR

Poet Analysis

First Line: HIGH ON HIS STOCKROOM LADDER LIKE A DUNCE
Last Line: GROWN SWEETLY FAINT, AND SWEPT BEYOND CONTROL, %CONSENTS TO HIS INEXORABLE WILL
Subject(s): NUDITY;

Poem Sources:

MODERN POEMS. EDITED BY RICHARD ELLMANN AND ROBERT O'CLAIR.
  ELLMANN, RICHARD (ED.)
  (1989)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY. 2ND ED.
  ELLMANN, RICHARD, & O'CLAIR, ROBERT (EDS.)
  (1988)
 
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN VERSE.
  ELLMANN, RICHARD (ED.)
  (1976)
 
POETRY; A HARPERCOLLINS POCKET ANTHOLOGY.
  GWYNN, R.S. (ED.)
  (1993)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. 3RD ED. ED, BY ALEXANDER ALLISON, BLAKE HERBERT, ET AL.
  ALLISON, ALEXANDER (ED.)
  (1983)
 
NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS.
  WILBUR, RICHARD
  (1988)
 



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