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Sweet Thames

R Sweet Thames ...

V. Spenser, Prothalamion. [Eliot's note] Eliot's line is the refrain from Spenser's marriage song, which is also set by the Thames in London - but a very different Thames from the modern littered river (NA).

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Spenser, Prothalamion →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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