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\nAn episode from 2/4/22: Here are five more poems going back to 1600 or so. Louise Bogan realizes mysticism isn\u2019t it, anymore than hedonism; Elizabeth Barret Browning continues to \u201cto shoot/My soul's full meaning into future years\u201d; William Blake is his visionary self; and Anne Bradstreet and Henry Vaughan, both born in the early seventeenth century, sound positively modern, writing a poem about gazing at one\u2019s own book, or a poem about the tree that the book once was:

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• Louise Bogan (1897-1970), \u201cThe Alchemist\u201d\u2060
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• \u2060Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese #41 (\u201cI thank all who have loved me in their hearts\u201d)\u2060
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• William Blake (1757-1827), from Milton \u2060(\u201cI come in self-annihilation\u201d)\u2060, from Jerusalem(\u2060\u201cTrembling I sit day and night\u201d\u2060)
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• Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), \u201cThe Author to Her Book\u201d
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• \u2060Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695) \u201cThe Book\u201d
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