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    Sonnets from the Patagonian
    Sonnets from the Patagonian
    Sonnets from the Patagonian
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    Sonnets from the Patagonian

    By Donald Evans

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Sonnets from the Patagonian - Donald Evans

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      Title: Sonnets from the Patagonian

      Author: Donald Evans

      Release Date: September 8, 2010 [EBook #33674]

      Language: English

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      SONNETS FROM THE PATAGONIAN

      BOOKS by DONALD EVANS

      Published by Nicholas L. Brown:

      Discords

      Two Deaths in the Bronx

      Nine Poems from a Valetudinarium

      Sonnets from the Patagonian

      Special Edition of the last title on Etruria (Italian hand-made) paper limited to 28 numbered copies, signed by author and publisher. Insert—one full sonnet written in the author's hand. $15.00.

      This edition is limited to 750 copies.

      Sonnets from the Patagonian

      (Donald Evans)

      Philadelphia Nicholas L. Brown 1918

      Copyright, 1918

      by

      Nicholas L. Brown

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      My dear Cornwall Hollis:

      With the Allied cause crumbling away it is high time we thought of aesthetics. As a triste jest I said that to you the other day, and your reply was a plea to let you write a preface for a new edition of my forgotten Sonnets from the Patagonian. I am at last persuaded, and who but you should do the preface?

      With Mitteleuropa a fact it should be apparent to any honest, thinking man that we are losing the War. Perhaps, in a larger sense, we have already lost the War and the dusk of the Anglo-Saxon is come. Then we are at last joined with the Héllenes and Latins in the descending scale, and it is the Teuton now approaching the perihelion, with the Slav, yet to conquer, in

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