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English in Education
Research Journal of the National Association for the Teaching of English
Volume 57, 2023 - Issue 1
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Star gazing: interpretive approaches to Whitman’s When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

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Pages 45-58 | Received 23 May 2022, Accepted 14 Nov 2022, Published online: 01 Dec 2022

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