o Neruda • Frank O'Hara • Fernando Pessoa • Sylvia Plath • Edgar Allan Poe • Ezra Pound • Adrienne Rich • }bitter Maria Rilke • Theodore Roethke • Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyso

o Neruda • Frank O'Hara • Fernando Pessoa • Sylvia Plath • Edgar Allan Poe • Ezra Pound • Adrienne Rich • }bitter Maria Rilke • Theodore Roethke • Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyso

o Neruda • Frank O'Hara • Fernando Pessoa • Sylvia Plath • Edgar Allan Poe • Ezra Pound • Adrienne Rich • }bitter Maria Rilke • Theodore Roethke • Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyso

ibrary fire, or dissolved by some military misfortune. This is why, for instance, we have almost all of Shakespeare and why we are missing so much of Sappho. Widespread knowledge changed this. A solid, inarguable base endured. “If 1 have seen further,” Newton famously wrote, “it is because I have stood on