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  • Draft of a Letter is an unsettled and radiant paradiso, imagined in the death-shadowed, birth-haunted middle of a long life.

    The Chicago Blog: Press Release: Longenbach, Draft of a Letter 2007

  • Their prospect of dwelling in the death-shadowed valley will be secured by their love for the sacred murdered hart and their (insufficient) sadness at its loss, in a community that is, in contrast to what the poem's speaker espouses, necessarily not "without dependence or defect,/Made for itself and happy in itself,/Perfect Contentment, Unity entire" (167-70).

    'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806 2001

  • His death-shadowed eyes sought and found his sister.

    The Reign of Istar Weis, Margaret 1992

  • Draft of a Letter is an unsettled and radiant paradiso, imagined in the death-shadowed, birth-haunted middle of a long life.

    The Chicago Blog 2009

  • Draft of a Letter is an unsettled and radiant paradiso, imagined in the death-shadowed, birth-haunted middle of a long life.

    The Chicago Blog 2009

  • Draft of a Letter is an unsettled and radiant paradiso, imagined in the death-shadowed, birth-haunted middle of a long life.

    The Chicago Blog 2009

  • Draft of a Letter is an unsettled and radiant paradiso, imagined in the death-shadowed, birth-haunted middle of a long life.

    The Chicago Blog 2009

  • Draft of a Letter is an unsettled and radiant paradiso, imagined in the death-shadowed, birth-haunted middle of a long life.

    The Chicago Blog 2009

  • Draft of a Letter is an unsettled and radiant paradiso, imagined in the death-shadowed, birth-haunted middle of a long life.

    The Chicago Blog 2009

  • Draft of a Letter is an unsettled and radiant paradiso, imagined in the death-shadowed, birth-haunted middle of a long life.

    The Chicago Blog 2009

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