Today’s Poem: Requiem
Reviving Robert Louis Stevenson
He’s missing from the Norton Anthology of Poetry, his place in the chronology taken by . . . um, looks up the Table of Contents; ah, yes . . . Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) and her Statue of Liberty sonnet, “The New Colossus.” Harold Bloom’s The Best Poems of the English Language
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