Vol. 25 No. 4 1958 - page 641

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By Z. S. FINK. This book presents the content of an early notebook
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Elizabethan Literature
By HELEN MORRIS. This study discusses Elizabethan writing
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literature and thought of the period are closely interwoven. Mrs.
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The Poetical Works of John Keats-Second Edition
Edited by H. W. GARROD. In this second edition the critical notes
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