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Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.

Arthur Davison Ficke

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Arthur Davison Ficke

Arthur Davison Ficke

Born: November 10, 1883
Died: November 30, 1945 (aged 62)
Bio: Arthur Davison Ficke was an American poet, playwright, and expert of Japanese art. Ficke had a national reputation as "a poet's poet", and "one of America's most expert sonneteers". Under the alias Anne Knish, Ficke co-authored Spectra.
Known for:
  1. Chats on Japanese Prints (1915)
  2. Spectra
  3. Sonnets of a portrait-painter (1914)
  4. Mr. Faust (1913)
  5. The Man on the Hilltop: And Other Poems (1915)

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