SOURCE: Milburn, Michael. “The Habit of Affection.” Ploughshares 11, no. 4 (1985): 59-77.
In the following essay, Milburn differentiates between poems he loves and those he merely admires, classifying McHugh's “I Knew I'd Sing” in the former category.
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