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Arrows of Desire

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LANGSTON HUGHES (1902–1967)
From Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria (1931)

www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/life.htm Langston Hughes's life

www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html Additional biographical information

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844–1889)
Pied Beauty (1877)

www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org/lectures_2003/hopkins-and-wilde-2.html Comparison of GM Hopkins and Oscar Wilde – Victorian poets

www.poetsgraves.co.uk/hopkins.htm Hopkins' grave

MARGARET CAVENDISH (1623–1673)
Of Many Worlds in This World (1653)

www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/cavendish/ About Margaret / historical context

www.hypatiamaze.org/cav_memoir/auto_mc1.html Margaret Cavendish autobiography

SYLVIA PLATH (1932–1963)
The Arrival of the Bee Box (1965)

www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/plath/plath.htm About Sylvia Plath - Modern American poetry

www.poetsgraves.co.uk/plath.htm Plath's grave


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