Courage Summary
Anne Sexton

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Courage Summary

"Courage" appears in Anne Sexton's eighth and last collection of original poems, The Awful Rowing Toward God, published by Houghton Mifflin, in 1975, a year after her suicide. It is the seventh poem in the collection, most of which were initially written to be a part of her 1974 collection, The Death Notebooks . The religious tone of the Rowing poems, however, dictated another book. Like many of the poems in the collection, "Courage" universalizes the...

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