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V.B. NIMBLE, V.B. QUICK by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: V.B. WIGGELSWORTH WAKES AT NOON
Last Line: INSTRUCTS THE JELLYFISH TO SPAWN, %AND, BY ONE O'CLOCK, IS GONE
Subject(s): HARVARD UNIVERSITY; SCIENCE;

Poem Sources:

THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF POEMS; SELECTED BY THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORKER.
  (1969)
 
THE OXFORD BOOK OF COMIC VERSE.
  GROSS, JOHN (ED.)
  (1994)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. FOURTH EDITION.
  FERGUSON, MARGARET, SALTER, MARY JO, & STALLWORTHY, JON (EDS.)
  (1996)
 
COLLECTED POEMS: 1953 - 1993.
  UPDIKE, JOHN
  (1995)
 



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