He has written a critical edition of Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair and, in 2009, he published a short literary biography of the poet.

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And that was just one of five different Timrod poems referenced in that one song alone that I discovered.

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The findings show that more girls admit they read text messages, magazines, emails, fiction, song lyrics and social networking message boards and poems than boys, while more boys said they read newspapers, comics and manuals.

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In fact, last night, we were singing a song on the telephone together because she's done a collection of songs that are set to Yeats poems.

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