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There seems to be little ground for hope, and because Thoreau will not live to see it come to pass, his “us” feels like an infelicitous first-person plural. But in Johnson’s poem, ...

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In a dark and crumbling universe, Teesside noise-punks Benefits are searching for the light and flying the flag for a better ...