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[Footnotes]
1 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, act 3, sc. 2, lines 145-148, 156-157, The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974), pp. 822-23.
2 Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," Collected Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay, ed. Norma Millay (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956), p. 286.
3 John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale," The Poetical Works of John Keats, ed. H. W. Garrod, rev. ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 208.
4 A. E. Housman, "To An Athlete Dying Young," Poem 19 of A Shropshire Lad in The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1940), p. 32.
5 Donald Hall, "My Son, My Executioner," Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, ed. X. J. Kennedy, second ed. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979), p. 677.
6 William Butler Yeats, "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water," The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. Peter Allt (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957), p. 208.
7 Ogden Nash, "Old Men," Many Long Years Ago (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945), p. 204.
8 Dylan Thomas, "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London," Dylan Thomas: The Poems (London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1971), p. 192.
9 Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, in Victorian Poetry and Poetics, ed. Walter E. Houghton, second ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968), p. 347.
10 Clinton F. Larson, " ’Twas Ever Thus,"
11 Richard B. Sewall, "A Sense of the Ending," The Norton Reader, ed. Arthur M. Eastman, fifth ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1980), p. 646.
12 Emily Dickinson, "By a Departing Light," The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955), p. 1157.
13 Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (New York: Harper’s Magazine Press, 1974), p. 184.
14 Thomas, "Fern Hill," pp. 195-96.
15 "The Order for the Burial of the Dead," The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1839), n.p.
16 Robert Browning, "Guido," The Ring and the Book, in Robert Browning’s Poems and Plays (London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1962), p. 487.
17 Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), p. 200.
18 John Donne, "Seventeenth Meditation," Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, ed. Anthony Raspa (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1975), p. 87.
19 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "People," trans. Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi, in Someone Like Me: Images for Writing, ed. Sheena Gillespie (Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop Publishing, Inc., 1973), p. xv.
20 Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning," The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954), p. 69.
21 Robert Frost, "Birches," The Complete Poetry of Robert Frost, ed. Edward Connery Latham (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969), p. 122.
22 Virgil, "Copa," Virgil With an English Translation by H. Rushton F air clough, rev. ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1935), p. 474, loosely translated.
23 Sewall, "Sense of the Ending," p. 645.
24 Dillard, Pilgrim, p. 276.
25 Walt Whitman, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d," Leaves of Grass: Comprehensive Reader’s Edition, ed. Harold W. Blodgett (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1965), p. 335.
26 Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," pp. 207-8.
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