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    The Flowers Celandine: A Pastiche of Sundry English Verse for the Drawer of the Hostess on Call
    The Flowers Celandine: A Pastiche of Sundry English Verse for the Drawer of the Hostess on Call
    The Flowers Celandine: A Pastiche of Sundry English Verse for the Drawer of the Hostess on Call
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    The Flowers Celandine: A Pastiche of Sundry English Verse for the Drawer of the Hostess on Call

    By Brad Ramsey

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    Ramsey's gentle collection of romantic poems proves as stereotypically flowery as the metaphors he uses in some entries to describe the relationship between a man and a prostitute. Writing in the style of 18th-century English poets such as William Collins and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who often sought out met

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLiterary Pastiche
    Release dateMay 1, 2020
    ISBN9781777035037
    The Flowers Celandine: A Pastiche of Sundry English Verse for the Drawer of the Hostess on Call
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    Brad Ramsey

    Brad Ramsey is a postmodernist writer who creates the art of pastiche to pay homage to poets in the English canon in first point of view narration for the original authors' and his own contemporary.

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