These must be the most familiar opening lines of any poem in the twentieth century.
Anthony Hecht The First Eighteen Lines of The Waste Land
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These must be the most familiar opening lines of any poem in the twentieth century.
Anthony Hecht The First Eighteen Lines of The Waste Land
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