The Noonday Demon
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Charles Baudelaire, excerpts from “Spleen,” translated by Sir John Squire, from Poems and Baudelaire Flowers (London: The New Age Press, 1909). Reprinted with the permission of Raglan Squire.
Emily Dickinson, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” and “The Heart asks Pleasure—first—” from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed. Copyright 1951, © 1955, 1979 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted with the permission of The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Jane Kenyon, excerpts from “Back” and “Having It Out with Melancholy” from Otherwise: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 1996 by the Estate of Jane Kenyon. Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Giacomo Leopardi, excerpt from Poems, translated by Jean-Pierre Barricelli (New York: Las Americas Publishing, 1963). Reprinted by permission of Dr. Franca R. Barricelli.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, excerpt from [“And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you”] from Collected Poems (New York: Harper & Row, 1967). Copyright 1954, © 1982 by Norma Millay Ellis. All rights reserved. Reprinted with the permission of Elizabeth Barnett, literary executor.
Virginia Woolf, suicide note from The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume VI: 1936–1941, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautman. Copyright © 1980 by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett. Reprinted with the permission of Harcourt, Inc., and the executors of the Virginia Woolf Estate and The Random House Group Limited.
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