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W. B. Yeats: excerpts from
A Prayer for my Daughter
and
The Scholars
.
Reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of Michael B. Yeats.

William Empson: excerpts from
Seven Types of Ambiguity
and
Argufying
. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd, London, on behalf of the Estate of William Empson.
Copyright © William Empson. Excerpts from
Seven Types of Ambiguity
published by the Hogarth Press. Used by permission of Lady Empson and the Random House Group Ltd. Excerpts from
The
Complete Poems
edited by John Haffenden (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000) copyright © Estate of William Empson, 2000.

T. S. Eliot: excerpts from
The Waste Land
,
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
,
Gerontion
,
Little Gidding
,
Ash-Wednesday
,
Selected Essays
,
The Use of Poetry and the Use of
Criticism
(1964),
Letters
, Volume 1,
On Poetry and Poets
(1957),
A Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot, Nightwood
(Introduction) and
The Sacred Wood
. Reproduced by
permission of Faber and Faber.

Wallace Stevens: excerpts from
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
and
The Plot Against the Giant
from
Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
. Reprinted by permission of Faber
and Faber.

Philip Larkin:
Love Songs in Age
,
Home is so Sad
; excerpts from
The Life with a Hole in it,
from
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
,
All What Jazz
and
Required
Writing
. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber.

Dream Song 118
, excerpts from
Dream Song 45
,
168
, from
The Dream Songs
by John Berryman. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber.

Bob Dylan: the following excerpts reproduced by permission of Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

Abandoned Love.
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Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous Birthday.
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1964 by Special Rider Music

Ain’t No Man Righteous, No Not One.
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1981 by Special Rider Music

All Along the Watchtower.
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1968 by Dwarf Music

All I Really Want to Do.
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1964 by Warner Bros Inc.

All the Tired Horses.
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1970 Big Sky Music

Angelina.
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1981 Special Rider Music

Are You Ready?
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1980 by Special Rider Music

Baby, I’m in the Mood for You.
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1963, 1966 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

Baby, Stop Crying.
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Ballad in Plain D.
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1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1992 Special Rider Music

Ballad of a Thin Man.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 Special Rider Music

Blind Willie McTell.
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1983 Special Rider Music

Blowin’ in the Wind.
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1962 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1990 Special Rider Music

Bob Dylan’s Dream.
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1963, 1964 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag.
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1970 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1998 by Special Rider Music

Boots of Spanish Leather.
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1963, 1964 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1991, 1992 by Special Rider Music

Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard).
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1986 by Special Rider Music

Bye and Bye.
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2001 by Special Rider Music

Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
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1965, 1966 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993, 1994 by Special Rider Music

City of Gold.
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1980 by Special Rider Music

Clean-Cut Kid.
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1984 by Special Rider Music

Clothes Line Saga.
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1969 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1997 by Dwarf Music

Country Pie.
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1969 by Big Sky Music; renewed 1997 by Big Sky Music

’Cross the Green Mountain.
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2002 by Special Rider Music

Cry A While.
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2001 by Special Rider Music

Dark Eyes.
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1985 by Special Rider Music

Day of the Locusts.
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1970 by Big Sky Music; renewed 1998 by Big Sky Music

Dead Man, Dead Man.
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1981 by Special Rider Music

Dear Landlord.
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1968 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1996 by Dwarf Music

Death is Not the End.
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1988 by Special Rider Music

Desolation Row.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

Dirge.
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1973 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2001 by Ram’s Horn Music

Disease of Conceit.
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1989 by Special Rider Music

Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others).
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1979 by Special Rider Music

Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight.
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1983 by Special Rider Music

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.
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1963 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music

Emotionally Yours.
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1985 by Special Rider Music

Eternal Circle.
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Every Grain of Sand.
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1981 by Special Rider Music

Farewell.
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1963 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music

Farewell, Angelina.
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1965, 1966 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993, 1994 by Special Rider Music

Foot of Pride.
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1983 by Special Rider Music

Forever Young.
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1973 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2001 by Ram’s Horn Music

Fourth Time Around.
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1966 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1994 by Dwarf Music

From a Buick 6.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

Gates of Eden.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

Goin’ to Acapulco.
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1975 by Dwarf Music

Going, Going, Gone.
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1973 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2001 by Ram’s Horn Music

Gotta Serve Somebody.
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1979 by Special Rider Music

Handy Dandy.
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1990 by Special Rider Music

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.
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1963 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music

Hero Blues.
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1963 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music

Highlands.
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1997 by Special Rider Music

High Water (For Charley Patton).
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2001 by Special Rider Music

Highway 61 Revisited.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

Hurricane (with Jacques Levy).
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1975 by Ram’s Horn Music

I and I.
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1983 by Special Rider Music

I Believe in You.
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1979 by Special Rider Music

I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met).
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1964 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1992 by Special Rider Music

I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine.
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1968 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1996 by Dwarf Music

I Shall Be Free.
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1963, 1967 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1991, 1995 by Special Rider Music

I Shall Be Free No. 10.
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1971 by Special Rider Music; renewed 1999 by Special Rider Music

I Shall Be Released.
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1967, 1970 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1995 by Dwarf Music

I Want You.
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1966 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1994 by Dwarf Music

Idiot Wind.
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1974 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2002 by Ram’s Horn Music

If I Don’t Be There by Morning.
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1978 Special Rider Music

If Not For You.
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1970 by Big Sky Music; renewed 1998 by Big Sky Music

If You Gotta Go, Go Now.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

In the Summertime.
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1981 by Special Rider Music

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

Jokerman.
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1983 by Special Rider Music

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie.
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1973 by Special Rider Music

Lay Down Your Weary Tune.
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1964, 1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1992, 1993 by Special Rider Music

Lay, Lady, Lay.
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1969 by Big Sky Music; renewed 1997 by Big Sky Music

Let’s Keep It Between Us.
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1982 by Special Rider Music

License to Kill.
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1983 by Special Rider Music

Like a Rolling Stone.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.
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1974 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2002 by Ram’s Horn Music

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.
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Love Minus Zero / No Limit.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

Maggie’s Farm.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

Mama, You Been on My Mind.
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1964, 1967 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1992, 1995 by Special Rider Music

Man of Peace.
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1983 by Special Rider Music

Maybe Someday.
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1986 by Special Rider Music

Million Dollar Bash.
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1967 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1995 by Dwarf Music

Mississippi. ©
Copyright 1997 by Special Rider Music

Mr. Tambourine Man.
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1964, 1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1992, 1993 by Special Rider Music

Moonlight.
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©
2001 by Special Rider Music

Most of the Time.
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©
1989 by Special Rider Music

My Back Pages.
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1964 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1992 by Special Rider Music

Neighborhood Bully.
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1983 by Special Rider Music

New Pony.
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1978 by Special Rider Music

No Time to Think.
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1978 by Special Rider Music

North Country Blues.
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1963, 1964 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1991, 1992 by Special Rider Music

Not Dark Yet.
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1997 by Special Rider Music

Odds and Ends.
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1969 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1997 by Dwarf Music

Oh Sister (with Jacques Levy).
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1975 by Ram’s Horn Music

On a Night Like This.
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1973 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2001 by Ram’s Horn Music

One More Weekend.
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1970 by Big Sky Music; renewed 1998 by Big Sky Music

One Too Many Mornings.
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1964, 1966 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1992, 1994 by Special Rider Music

Only a Pawn in Their Game.
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1963, 1964 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1991, 1992 by Special Rider Music

Oxford Town.
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1963 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1992 by Special Rider Music

Percy’s Song.
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1964, 1966 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1992, 1994 by Special Rider Music

Please, Mrs. Henry.
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1967 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1995 by Dwarf Music

Pledging My Time.
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1966 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1994 by Dwarf Music

Positively 4th Street.
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1965 by Warner Bros Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

Precious Angel.
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1979 by Special Rider Music

Pressing On.
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1980 by Special Rider Music

Quit Your Low Down Ways.
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