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Voices of the Heart:
Memorial Poems from the Diphtheria Epidemic of 1876-78
By PhilReader
(Compiled, and with an introduction, by PhilReader)
To the memory of Miss Cora E. Drew (1864-1877)
I first met Cora on a dark, rainy night during the month
by scholars and poets and critics have been written
about it by the score, and therefore nothing new need be expected here.
A lamentable lack of knowledge seems to prevail amongst sonneteers and their readers
about the form of the sonnet. The great English