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Blog Round-Up: Primary Sources and Poetry

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T.S. Eliot thought April was the cruelest month. William Carlos Williams thought it was the saddest. Longfellow and Ogden Nash said they loved it, and Emily Dickinson was ambivalent, so far as I can tell.

"O Captain! My Captain!" page with Whitman’s handwritten corrections, 1888
“O Captain! My Captain!” page with Whitman’s handwritten corrections, 1888

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