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Book Title: Odes of John Keats
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 5.9in
Author: Helen Vendler
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 1985
Genre: Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
