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In college I had a wonderful course on W.B. Yeats, thought I was clever in my essays, impressed my brother with my understandings, and loved my professor. She was the divorced wife of Randall Jarrell, the poet. Mackie Jarrell was her name. I loved her for encouraging me with my work, the word “encourage” meaning “to give heart to.” My college text on Yeats’ collected poems (1959), revisited now after fifty years, is well fingered.
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Doll, M.A. (2011). The More of Less. In: Doll, M.A. (eds) The More of Myth. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 68. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-445-4_9
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