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I was fascinated by the premise of this essay. “There are far too few daughters in poetry.” –JGR Daughters in Poetry by Eavan Boland There are far too few daughters in poetry. They turn up surprisingly rarely in nineteenth century poems, considering how they crowded into the available fictional equivalents. So it’s a relief to…
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