Text-Book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith, and Thomson; With Sketches of the Authors' Lives, Notes, and Glossaries (Classic Reprint)

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Fb&c Limited, Nov 22, 2016 - History - 720 pages
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