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    Margaret Atwood's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
    Margaret Atwood's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
    Margaret Atwood's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
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    Margaret Atwood's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Margaret Atwood
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    Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.   Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:   *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
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    *A review quiz and essay topics Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers  
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSparkNotes
    Release dateAug 12, 2014
    ISBN9781411476431
    Margaret Atwood's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide)

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      Margaret Atwood’s Poetry

      Margaret Atwood

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      Contents

      Context

      Overview of Major Works

      Themes, Motifs, & Symbols

      Important Quotations Explained

      Key Facts

      Context

      Margaret Atwood was born on November

      18

      ,

      1939

      , in Ottawa, Ontario, to parents of Nova Scotian origin. When she was seven, her family moved to Toronto but continued to spend the warmer months in the remote northern areas of Ontario and Quebec, where her father, an entomologist and zoology professor, studied tree-eating insects. Atwood’s fascination with the Canadian wilderness, which is present in so much of her writing, dates from this period. She was eleven before she attended school on a full-time basis.

      She received her bachelor’s degree from Victoria College, part of the University of Toronto, in

      1961

      .

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