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Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24- editor.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2012].
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Book
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9780674065680, 0674065689
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xxvii, 745 pages ; 24 cm
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Table of Contents
Confessio amantis / John Gower (1330?-1408) --
The vision of Piers Plowman / William Langland (1330?-1386?) --
The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?-1400) --
La male regle de T. Hoccleue / Thomas Hoccleve (1367?-1426) --
King Henry VI's triumphal entry into London / John Lydgate (1370?-1449/50) --
London lickpenny / Anon. (15th century) --
Collyn Clout / John Skelton (1460?-1529) --
"London, thou art of townes a per se" / Anon. (1500?) --
"Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams" / Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) --
"Who list his wealth and ease retain" / Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) --
"London, hast thou accusèd me" / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547) --
The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate / Anne Askew (1521-1546) --
The lover to the Thames of London, to favour his lady passing thereon / George Turberville (1544?-1597?) --
The manner of her will, and what she left to London and to all those in it, at her departing / Isabella Whitney (1548?-?) --
Prothalamion / Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) --
King Edward the First / George Peele (1556-1596) --
Tichborne's elegy / Chidiock Tichborne (1558?-1586) --
Poly-olbion / Michael Drayton (1563-1631) --
Henry VI, part II / William Shakespeare (1564-1616) --
Henry V / William Shakespeare (1564-1616) --
Henry VIII / William Shakespeare (1564-1616) --
Summer's last will and testament / Thomas Nashe (1567?-1601) --
Skialetheia / Everard Guilpin (1572?-?) --
The devil is an ass / Ben Jonson (1572?-1637) --
On the famous voyage / Ben Jonson (1572?-1637) --
Satire 1 / John Donne (1572-1631) --
To Mr. E.G. / John Donne (1572-1631) --
Epithalamion made at Lincoln's Inn / John Donne (1572-1631) --
Satire 4 / John Donne (1572-1631) --
Twickenham Garden / John Donne (1572-1631).
The sculler / John Taylor (1580-1653) --
Sir Gregory Nonsense's News from no place / John Taylor (1580-1653) --
The city madam / Philip Massinger (1583-1640) --
The knight of the burning pestle / Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625) --
Letter to Ben Johnson / Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) --
On the tombs in Westminster Abbey / Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) --
London's progress / Thomas Freeman (1590?-1630?) --
Turner's dish of Lenten stuff, or a Gallimaufry / W. Turner --
London, look back / Abraham Holland (?-1626) --
An ode for him [Ben Jonson] / Robert Herrick (1591-1674) --
His return to London / Robert Herrick (1591-1674) --
His tears to Thamasis / Robert Herrick (1591-1674) --
London sad London : an echo / Anon. (1640s, pub. 1662) --
On the statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross / Edmund Waller (1606-1687) --
On St. James's Park, as lately improved by his majesty / Edmund Waller (1606-1687) --
When the assault was intended to the city / John Milton (1608-1674) --
A ballad upon a wedding / Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) --
The cheaters cheated / Thomas Jordan (1612?-1685) --
The triumphs of London / Thomas Jordan (1612?-1685) --
A song sung at the Lord Mayor's table in honour of the city and the goldsmith's company / Thomas Jordan (1612?-1685) --
Cooper's Hill / Sir John Denham (1615-1669) --
The Civil War / Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) --
To Althea, from prison : song / Richard Lovelace (1618-1657/8) --
London's resurrection / Simon Ford (1619?-1699) --
A rhapsody / Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) --
The cries of London / Anon. (17th century) --
An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland / Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) --
Annus Mirabilis / John Dryden (1631-1700) --
MacFlecknoe / John Dryden (1631-1700) --
In the fields of Lincoln's Inn / Anon. (pub. 1680) --
A letter from Artemisa in the town to Chloe in the country / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) --
Song ("Quoth the duchess of Cleveland to counselor knight") / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) --
A ramble in St. James's Park / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680).
A satire in imitation of the third of juvenal / John Oldham (1653-1683) --
A winter wonder, or, The Thames frozen over, with remarks on the resort there / Anon. (1684) --
The wonders of the deep / Anon. (1684) --
A song / Pierre Antoine Motteux (1660-1718) --
A description of the morning / Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) --
A description of a city shower / Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) --
Clever Tom Clinch / Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) --
A beautiful young nymph going to bed / Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) --
On poetry : a rhapsody / Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) --
Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London / John Gay (1685-1732) --
The beggar's opera / John Gay (1685-1732) --
The fair lass of Islington / Anon. (pub. 1719) --
The alley : an imitation of Spenser / Alexander Pope (1688-1744) --
A farewell to London in the year 1715 / Alexander Pope (1688-1744) --
Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the town, after the coronation / Alexander Pope (1688-1744) --
The dunciad / Alexander Pope (1688-1744) --
Six town eclogues / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) --
On the prospect from Westminster Bridge, March 1750 / Elizabeth Tollet (1694-1754) --
A description of London / John Bancks (1709-1751) --
Hail, London! / Anon. (1739) --
London / Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) --
London Bridge (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
Oranges and lemons (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
"Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?" (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
"Poussie, poussie, baudrons" (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
"Up at Piccadilly oh!" (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
"See-saw, sacradown" (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
"Upon Paul's steeple stands a tree" (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
"As I was going o'er London Bridge" (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
"As I was going o'er London bridge" (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
"I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod" (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
Pop goes the weasel (nursery rhymes pub. 18th-19th centuries) --
The sweepers / William Whitehead (1715-1785) --
Description of an author's bedchamber / Oliver Goldsmith (1729-1774) --
The task / William Cowper (1731-1800) --
Town eclogues / Charles Jenner (1736-1774) --
Song for the London volunteers / Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) --
West End Fair / Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) --
The jolly young waterman / Charles Dibdin (1745?-1814) --
Poll of wapping / Charles Dibdin (1745?-1814) --
The gin-shop, or, A peep into prison / Hannah More (1745-1833).
London's summer morning / Mary Robinson (1757-1800) --
Holy Thursday / William Blake (1757-1827) --
The chimney sweeper / William Blake (1757-1827) --
London / William Blake (1757-1827) --
Jerusalem / William Blake (1757-1827) --
London / Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) --
The farmer of Tilsbury Vale / William Wordsworth (1770-1850) --
The reverie of poor Susan / William Wordsworth (1770-1850) --
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 / William Wordsworth (1770-1850) --
The prelude / William Wordsworth (1770-1850) --
Horace in London / James Smith(1775-1839) and Horace Smith (1779-1849) --
To Hampstead / Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) --
Description of Hampstead / Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) --
Childe Harold's pilgrimage / Lord Byron (1788-1824) --
Don Juan / Lord Byron (1788-1824) --
Letter to Maria Gisborne / Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) --
Peter Bell the Third / Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) --
Sonnet / John Hamilton Reynolds (1794-1852) --
"To one who has been long in city pent" / John Keats (1795-1821) --
On seeing the Elgin marbles / John Keats (1795-1821) --
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern / John Keats (1795-1821) --
Moral reflections on the cross of St. Paul's / Thomas Hood (1799-1845) --
The Lord Mayor's show / Thomas Hood (1799-1845) --
Sonnet to Vauxhall / Thomas Hood (1799-1845) --
The workhouse clock : an allegory / Thomas Hood (1799-1845) --
Scenes in London : Piccadilly / Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) --
Goodnight to the season / Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839) --
Aurora Leigh / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) --
In memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) --
Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) --
Cleopatra's needle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) --
Have you been to the crystal palace? / Anon. (1851) --
Waring / Robert Browning (1812-1889) --
There was an old person of Putney / Edward Lear (1812-1888) --
There was an old man of Blackheath / Edward Lear (1812-1888) --
There was a young person of Kew / Edward Lear (1812-1888) --
There was an old person of Bow / Edward Lear (1812-1888) --
There was a young lady of Greenwich / Edward Lear (1812-1888) --
There was an old person of Ealing / Edward Lear (1812-1888) --
There was an old person of Bromley / Edward Lear (1812-1888) --
There was an old person of Sheen / Edward Lear (1812-1888) --
There was an old man of Thames Ditton / Edward Lear (1812-1888) --
To the great metropolis / Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) --
In the great metropolis / Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) --
"Blessed are those who have not seen" / Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) --
"Ye flags of Piccadilly" / Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861).
The cries of London / Anon. (19th century) --
In a London drawingroom / George Eliot (1819-1880) --
Strike of the London Cabmen / Anon. (1869) --
St. James's Street / Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895) --
Lines written in Kensington Gardens / Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) --
West London / Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) --
East London / Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) --
Tiber, Nile, and Thames / Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882) --
A London fête / Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) --
Sunday at Hampstead / James Thomson (1834-1882) --
A Cockney's evening song / Henry S. Leigh (1837-1883) --
Bloomsbury / Anon. (1893) --
A new song of the spring garden / Austin Dobson (1840-1921) --
Beyond the last lamp / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
The coronation / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
In the British Museum / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
In St. Paul's a while ago / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
Coming up Oxford Street : evening / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
A refusal / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
To a tree in London / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
Christmas in the Elgin Room / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
To a London sparrow / W.H. Hudson (1841-1922) --
London snow / Robert Bridges (1844-1930) --
Trafalgar Square / Robert Bridges (1844-1930) --
London voluntaries / W.E. Henley (1849-1903) --
London types / W.E. Henley (1849-1903) --
Impression du matin / Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) --
London / John Davidson (1857-1909) --
Thirty bob a week / John Davidson (1857-1909) --
In the isle of dogs / John Davidson (1857-1909) --
Fog / John Davidson (1857-1909) --
The Thames embankment / John Davidson (1857-1909) --
"From the wash the laundress sends" / A.E. Housman (1859-1936) --
In London Town / Mary E. Coleridge (1861-1907) --
A March day in London / Amy Levy (1861-1889) --
Straw in the street / Amy Levy (1861-1889) --
London poets / Amy Levy (1861-1889) --
In partibus / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) --
The river's tale / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) --
London stone / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) --
The craftsman / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) --
Epitaphs of the war / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) --
London nights / Arthur Symons (1865-1945) --
Décor de théâtre / Arthur Symons (1865-1945) --
London / Arthur Symons (1865-1945) --
Vacillation / W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) --
London Town / Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) --
By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross / Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) --
In Nunhead Cemetery / Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) --
As I walked through London / Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) --
The embankment / T.E. Hulme (1883-1917) --
Portrait d'une femme / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) --
The garden / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) --
Simulacra / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) --
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) --
Flat suburbs, S.W., in the morning / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) --
Guards / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) --
Bombardment / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) --
Hyde Park at night, before the war / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) --
Embankment at night, before the war / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) --
Town in 1917 / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) --
London streets / Frances Cornford (1886-1960) --
Parting in wartime / Frances Cornford (1886-1960).
Monody on the demolition of Devonshire House / Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) --
The waste land / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) --
Sweeney Agonistes / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) --
Four quartets / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) --
Fleet Street / Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) --
St. Mary's, Kensington / Richard Aldington (1892-1962) --
In the tube / Richard Aldington (1892-1962) --
Hampstead heath / Richard Aldington (1892-1962) --
London / Richard Aldington (1892-1962) --
Whitechapel / Richard Aldington (1892-1962) --
Eros and Psyche / Richard Aldington (1892-1962) --
"I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair" / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) --
Song from the bride of Smithfield / Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) --
East London cemetery / Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) --
The shop / John Rodker (1894-1955) --
The searchlight / John Rodker (1894-1955) --
Armistice Day, 1918 / Robert Graves (1895-1985) --
Tube station / A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) --
London / A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) --
Summer night at Hyde Park corner / A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) --
Autumn / A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) --
The city : midday nocturne / A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) --
Suburb / Stevie Smith (1902-1971) --
Homage to the British Museum / William Empson (1906-1984) --
The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel / John Betjeman (1906-1984) --
In Westminster Abbey / John Betjeman (1906-1984) --
Parliament Hill fields / John Betjeman (1906-1984) --
St. Saviour's, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London, N. / John Betjeman (1906-1984) --
The metropolitan railway / John Betjeman (1906-1984) --
Business girls / John Betjeman (1906-1984) --
N.W.5 & N.6 / John Betjeman (1906-1984) --
Summoned by bells / John Betjeman (1906-1984) --
Autumn journal / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) --
The British Museum Reading Room / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) --
Goodbye to London / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) --
Charon / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) --
Hampstead autumn / Stephen Spender (1909-1995) --
Epilogue to a human drama / Stephen Spender (1909-1995) --
Regent's Park terrace / Bernard Spencer (1909-1963) --
Train to work / Bernard Spencer (1909-1963) --
London buses / Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) --
Memento mori / Kenneth Allott (1912-1973) --
First winter of war / Roy Fuller (1912-1991) --
Battersea : after Dunkirk, June 3, 1940 / Roy Fuller (1912-1991) --
London air-raid, 1940 / Roy Fuller (1912-1991).
Wentworth Place : Keats Grove / Anne Ridler (1912-2001) --
Kew Gardens / George Barker (1913-1991) --
Westminster Abbey / Alun Lewis (1915-1944) --
Redcliffe Square / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) --
Winter and London / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) --
Monmouth Street / Nicholas Moore (1918-1986) --
Lonton architecture 1960s / John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006) --
Lament for the "old swan," Notting Hill Gate / John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006) --
The night city / W.S. Graham (1918-1986) --
A tour of London / Muriel Spark (1918-2006) --
The "bête noire" fragments / Keith Douglas (1920-1944) --
The stations of King's Cross / D.J. Enright (1920-2002) --
Deceptions / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) --
Naturally the foundation will bear your expenses / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) --
To Londoners / Donald Davie (1922-1995) --
Street scene / Dannie Abse (1923- ) --
Soho : Saturday night / Dannie Abse (1923- ) --
Two black labourers on a London building site / James Berry (1924- ) --
Beginning in a city, 1948 / James Berry (1924- ) --
The Tower of London / John Ashbery (1927- ) --
Autobiography / Thom Gunn (1929-2004) --
Talbot Road / Thom Gunn (1929-2004) --
Vauxhall / Connie Bensley (1929- ) --
Bottleneck / Connie Bensley (1929- ) --
Thomas Hardy at Westbourne Park villas / Peter Porter (1929-2010) --
Rising damp / U.A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) --
Widening the Westway / U.A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) --
Fate playing / Ted Hughes (1930-1998) --
Epiphany / Ted Hughes (1930-1998) --
Omeros / Derek Walcott (1930- ) --
A202 / Alan Brownjohn (1931- ) --
The same power / Ruth Fainlight (1931- ) --
Churchill's funeral / Geoffrey Hill (1932- ) --
To the High Court of Parliament / Geoffrey Hill (1932- ) --
Parliament Hill Fields / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).
Cashpoint Charlie / Anne Stevenson (1933- ) --
Miss Hamilton in London / Fleur Adcock (1934- ) --
Londoner / Fleur Adcock (1934- ) --
To Marilyn from London / Fleur Adcock (1934- ) --
London songs / John Fuller (1937- ) --
The shires / John Fuller (1937- ) --
The London poems / Ken Smith (1938-2003) --
The underground / Seamus Heaney (1939- ) --
District and circle / Seamus Heaney (1939- ) --
Rain journal : London : June 65 / Lee Harwood (1939- ) --
Outside Biba's / Grey Gowrie (1939- ) --
In England / Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) --
Sunday morning / Derek Mahon (1941- ) --
Tavistock Square / Hugo Williams (1942- ) --
Bar Italia / Hugo Williams (1942- ) --
Bar Italia / Hugo Williams (1942- ) --
Notting Hill / Hugo Williams (1942- ) --
Bunhill Fields / Iain Sinclair (1943- ) --
Hurricane drummers : self-aid in Haggerston / Iain Sinclair (1943- ) --
Earls Court / Mimi Khalvati (1944- ) --
Pleasure Island, marble arch / Carol Rumens (1944- ) --
Lonely hearts / Wendy Cope (1945- ) --
After the lunch / Wendy Cope (1945- ) --
Perduta gente / Peter Reading (1946-2011) --
North London sonnet / Christopher Reid (1949- ) --
Exasperated piety / Christopher Reid (1949- ) --
Museum, 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields / Gillian Allnutt (1949- ) --
Toussaint L'Ouverture acknowledges Wordsworth's Sonnet "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" / John Agard (1949- ) --
Chilling out beside the Thames / John Agard (1949- ) --
Island man / Grace Nichols (1950- ) --
The miracle at Shepherd's Bush / Charles Boyle (1951- ) --
London plane / Andrew Motion (1952- ) --
Sonny's Lettah / Linton Kwesi Johnson (1952- ) --
St. Bride's / Jo Shapcott (1953- ) --
The river glideth of his own sweet will / Michael Donaghy (1954-2004) --
Poem on the underground / Michael Donaghy (1954-2004).
Quentin Crisp as Prime Minister / Jeremy Reed (1954- ) --
Sainthood : elegies for Derek Jarman / Jeremy Reed (1954- ) --
John Keats walks home following a night spent reading Homer with Cowden Clarke / John Stammers (1954- ) --
Woman seated in the underground, 1941 / Carol Ann Duffy (1955- ) --
The London dissector / Alan Jenkins (1955- ) --
Occupations of Bridewell / Jamie McKendrick (1955- ) --
Penal architecture / Jamie McKendrick (1955- ) --
The deadhouse / Jamie McKendrick (1955- ) --
Cockney / Mick Imlah (1956-2009) --
Almost the equinox / Sarah Maguire (1957- ) --
From Kensal Rise to heaven / Michael Hofmann (1957- ) --
From A to B and back again / Michael Hofmann (1957- ) --
Malvern Road / Michael Hofmann (1957- ) --
Smash the windows / Maura Dooley (1957- ) --
The bombs, July 2005 / David Kennedy (1959- ) --
Home / Fred d'Aguiar (1960- ) --
River history / Lavinia Greenlaw (1962- ) --
The fires by the river / Glyn Maxwell (1962- ) --
KX / Simon Armitage (1963- ) --
Another Westminster Bridge / Alice Oswald (1966- ) --
Yobbos! / Daljit Nagra (1966- ) --
The tip / Nick Laird (1975- ) --
German phenomenology makes me want to strip and run through north London / Heather Phillipson (1978- ) --
Donjong Heights / Ben Borek (1980- ) --
Big skies over docklands / Tom Chivers (1983- ) --
[Dionysus] / Ahren Warner (1986- ).
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Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2012].
Language
English
ISBN
9780674065680, 0674065689
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 727-734) and index.
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London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature.
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Ford, M. (2012). London: a history in verse . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24-. 2012. London: A History in Verse. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24-. London: A History in Verse Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
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