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| Title | Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets PCMI collection |
| Author | David Masson |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1856 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Jan 2006 |
| ISBN | 084146491X, 9780841464919 |
| Length | 475 pages |
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