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Short Story: The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse by William Saroyan

Essay: Chapter 1 of Why Literature Still Matters by Jaspn Baxter

Poem:

Period

by R.S. Thomas 

It was a time when wise men

Were not silent, but stifled

By vast noise. They took refuge

In books that were not read.

Two counselors had the ear

Of the public. One creed 'Buy'

Day and Night, and the other,

More plausibly, 'Sell your repose.'