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  2. With Ballot and Bayonet - Wikipedia

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    With Ballot and Bayonet: The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers is a 1998 non-fiction book by Joseph Allan Frank, published by University of Georgia Press. [ 1 ] Stephen V. Ash of University of Tennessee, Knoxville stated that despite the title, the book covers how preceding history had formed mindsets and that the actual ...

  3. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    Smithsonian Global Sound: The Music of Poetry—audio samples of poems, hymns and songs in ballad meter. The Oxford Book of Ballads, complete 1910 book by Arthur Quiller-Couch; English Broadside Ballad Archive—an archive of images and recordings of over 4,000 pre-1700 broadside ballads; A Book of Old English Ballads public domain audiobook at ...

  4. The Pickwick Papers - Wikipedia

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    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by English author Charles Dickens.His previous work was Sketches by Boz, published in 1836, and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, [1] and to connect them into a novel.

  5. Jodi Picoult Says 'Books Are On The Ballot' After Her Book ...

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    Book banners have used porn "as an excuse for banning more than 10,000 books in public schools in the last school year," she continues, pointing out that many of these books are written by BIPOC ...

  6. Lyrical Ballads - Wikipedia

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    If the experiment with vernacular language was not enough of a departure from the norm, the focus on simple, uneducated country people as the subject of poetry was a signal shift to modern literature. One of the main themes of "Lyrical Ballads" is the return to the original state of nature, in which people led a purer and more innocent existence.

  7. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Limerick– Popularized by Edward Lear in his Book of Nonsense published in 1846, a limerick is considered the only fixed form of English origin. It is a light or humorous form of five chiefly anapestic verses with a rhyme scheme of aabba. Modern limericks generally use the final line for clever witticisms and wordplay while its content often ...

  8. Laurence Perrine - Wikipedia

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    He began his distinguished career as a member of SMU's English faculty in 1946 and was named the Daisy Deane Frensley Professor of English Literature in 1968. Perrine's works include textbooks on the appreciation of poetry and fiction entitled Sound and Sense and Story and Structure , first published in 1956 and 1959 respectively.

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