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Acceptable speech? That which predominates?

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Silkin, J. (1997). Some Poets Now. In: The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25351-7_7

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