Poetics of melancholy and psychic possession in Ted Hughes's birthday letters and other haunted texts

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Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 129-150

  Hunter, Dianne ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 62449160145     PISSN: 15653668     EISSN: 19369247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pan.0.0096     Document Type: Review

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