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It will seem peculiar to start upon the subject of prosody by talking anecdotally about death. I don’t mean the sombre hooded figure; rather a sense more basic than our mere individual fear of death, however powerful and necessary that may be. My interest is in the form that death gives to our lives.
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Oliver, D. (1992). Three Lilies. In: Riley, D. (eds) Poets on Writing. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22048-9_37
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