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1. What are two possible reasons/rationales for why a poem from a book of

“Innocence" should precede a poem from a book of "Experience?"

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two possible ways the poem was composed. The first, Mason's concept, argues that the Eton copy was the original for the Elegy poem and was complete in itself. Later critics claimed that the original was more complete than the later version; [18] Roger Lonsdale argued that the early version had a balance that set up the debate,

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