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Nov/Dec 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 6 • Walking with Poets |

Early Nineteenth-Century English Poetry Walks

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I remember the rain, a cold coin-colored all-day rain,

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Stanley Plumly’s most recent book of poems is Orphan Hours (W.W. Norton, 2012). His collection Old Heart won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2015, his book of prose The Immortal Evening won the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism. Plumly is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. In 2010 he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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