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William H. O'Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald, The Collected Works of
W.B. Yeats, 14 vols. (New York: Scribner, 1999), 219-66.
29 Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, 188.
30 See, for example, Leonard Nathan, "The Ballads of Reading Gaol: At the Limits
of the Lyric," in Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde, ed. Regenia Gagnier, (New
York: G.K. Hall, 1991) 213-22, and Karen Alkalay-Gut "The Thing He Loves:
Murder as an Aesthetic Experience in 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol,'" Victorian
Poetry 35 (1997), 349-66.
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