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- ↑ Swaim, Kathleen M. "Herbert's "Paradise"." George Herbert Journal, vol. 8 no. 2, 1985, pp. 19–31. doi : 10.1353/ghj.1985.0008
- ↑ Quoted in Scott, Arthur. Current literary terms: a concise dictionary of their origin and use. Macmillan, 1967, p. 235
- ↑ Lull, Janis. The poem in time: reading George Herbert's revisions of The church. University of Delaware Press, 1990, p. 132
- ↑ Harmon, William. A handbook to literature. Prentice Hall, 2000, pp. 415–416.