by Mary Oliver
*All quotations are taken from The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (New York: Modern Library, 1992).
*All italics in quotations are mine.
*Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (New York: Library of America, 1995), p. 742.
*From The Varieties of Religious Experience, in William James: Writings, 1902–1910 (New York: Library of America, 1987). The particular phrases quoted can be found on pp. 343–44.
*Ibid., p. 357.
*The number of pages devoted to this poem in Walt Whitman: Complete Poetry and Collected Prose (New York: Library of America, 1982).
*Poem lengths are taken from the volume previously cited.
*Probably Parasteatoda tepidariorum.
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