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This poet’s spouse created a bust of Sappho for their farmhouse in upstate New York, which Mary Oliver recalled visiting in the essay “Steepletop.” A poem by this author observes that “the rain / is full of ghosts tonight” (10[1])and notes, “summer sang in me / A little while.” This poet commanded the reader to “let geese gabble and hiss” (10[1])in a poem that considers those who “have heard her massive sandal set on stone.” That sonnet by this author imagines the (10[1])“terrible day, when first the shaft into his vision shone / of light (10[1])anatomized!” This poet stated “Infinity / Came down (10[1])and settled over me” in a poem beginning “All I could see from where I stood / Was three long mountains and a wood.” For 10 points, name this poet of “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare” and “Renascence.” ■END■ (10[1]0[6])

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