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If he wishes to show that "No Second Troy" is a better poem than "Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation," I am not persuaded by his telling me that the latter poem is "an incantation against elementary democratic reforms" and that the former poem enacts Yeats's "hard-wrung triumph, over selfpity."
Archaeology 2009
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It occurred to him that he might be suffering a bad case of selfpity, but why the hell not?
Fat Tuesday Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1997
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In case it be thought that a note of selfpity has crept in to this account of my apparent boredom, I must say that the intention was never to complain about my fate, but merely to explain the form of my protest.
An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977
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