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5Alastair Fowler, A History of English Literature. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989, p. 326.
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7Alan Robinson, Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry. London: Macmillan, 1988, p. 196, p.198.
8James Berry, "The Literature of the Black Experience'', in David Sutcliffe and Ansel Wong eds., The Language of the Black Experience. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986, p.90.
