One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
Buy on Amazon"One Art" is a poem by American poet Elizabeth Bishop, originally published in The New Yorker in 1976. Later that same year, Bishop included the poem in her book Geography III, which includes other works such as "In the Waiting Room" and "The Moose". It is considered to be one of the best villanelles in the English language, and is compared to the works of W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke, Sylvia Plath, and more.
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