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Gerontion 937
The Waste Land 939
The Hollow Men 954
Amy Lowell (1874–1925) 957
Patterns 958
A Decade 960
Meeting-House Hill 960
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) 961
Wild Peaches 962
Sanctuary 963
Prophecy 963
Let No Charitable Hope 964
O Virtuous Light 964
H.D. (Hilda DooLittle) (1886–1961) 965
Heat 966
Heliodora 966
Lethe 969
Sigil 970
Poets of Idea and Order 971
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) 971
Peter Quince and the Clavier 972
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 974
Sunday Morning 975
Depression before Spring 978
Ploughing on Sunday 978
Anecdote of the Jar 978
Bantams in Pine-Woods 979
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 980
The Emperor of Ice-Cream 980
To the One of Fictive Music 981
The Idea of Order at Key West 982
A Postcard from the Volcano 983
Of Modern Poetry 984
No Possum, No Sop, No Taters 984
The Plain Sense of Things 985
Of Mere Being 986
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) 986
The Young Housewife 988
Tract 988