Instead of collectivity, there is a certain kind of animal community, or one that the poems’ speakers—children, old men, drunks, prostitutes—often stand apart from.
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Max Norman,
Harpers Magazine,
22 Sep. 2026
They were all also alleged to have been prostitutes, though recent scholarship has challenged that assertion.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 Aug. 2026
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