Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language

Year 1988
Pages 262

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Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language by John Hollander is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. This edition is listed as 1988 • Yale Univ Pr • 262 pages.

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