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SPEECH TO THE DETRACTORS by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT SHOULD A MAN DO BUT LOVE EXCELLENCE
Last Line: NOT THE UNWITTING DEAD %BUT WE WHO LEAVE THEIR PRAISE UNSAID ARE PLUNDERED

Poem Sources:

BEST POEMS OF 1936.
  MOULT, THOMAS (ED.)
  (1936)
 
COLLECTED POEMS, 1917-1982.
  MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD
  (1985)
 



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