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  2. Parable of the Sunfish - Wikipedia

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    Agassiz finally tells the student to "look at the fish" and "[a]t the end of three weeks the fish was in an advanced state of decomposition, but the student knew something about it." [1]: 18 The text of the parable itself spans 131 words over sixteen lines and is often reproduced in full when cited. [2] [3] [4]

  3. List of long poems in English - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...

  4. Luis H. Francia - Wikipedia

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    Francia was born in Manila, Philippines.He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with an AB in Humanities, cum laude [2] and moved to New York in the 1970s. As a budding poet in New York, he studied with José García Villa, [3] the National Artist of the Philippines for literature, at The New School and later at his private workshop in Greenwich Village.

  5. The Fish (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The Fish is a 1918 poem by the American poet Marianne Moore. The poem was published in the August 1918 issue of The Egoist . Moore's biographer, Linda Leavell, has described "The Fish" as "...one of Moore's best-loved and most mystifying poems" and that it is "Admired for its imagery and technical proficiency". [ 1 ]

  6. The Mersey Sound (anthology) - Wikipedia

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    The Mersey Sound is an anthology of poems by Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri first published in 1967, when it launched the poets into "considerable acclaim and critical fame". [1] It went on to sell over 500,000 copies, becoming one of the bestselling poetry anthologies of all time.

  7. The Fisherman and his Flute - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, it was translated as bagpipe by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, in her rendering of his poem. [ 5 ] La Fontaine had made of the story an artificial pastoral in which Tircis tried to charm the fishes to the hook of the shepherdess Annette but did not succeed until he used a net to catch them.

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  9. Children's poetry - Wikipedia

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    Les Contenances de la Table, published in 1487, is a French example; [1] The Babee's Boke and Queen Elizabethe's Academy are both English examples, printed in the 1500s. [ 5 ] The first children's book printed in the New World was John Cotton 's Milk for Babes, Drawn out of the Breasts of Both Testaments, Chiefly for the Spiritual Nourishment ...