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Charles Dickens is one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era, known for ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ and ‘David Copperfield’. Unlike Keats, Tennyson, and Wordsworth, he is not known as a poet.
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‘Twelfth Night’ is a comedy by William Shakespeare. It centers on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck, leading to a complex plot of mistaken identity and romance.
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Charles Dickens is the novelist in this list. Shelley and Arnold were primarily poets (though Arnold wrote criticism), and Bacon was an essayist. Dickens wrote famous novels like ‘Great Expectations’.
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While often attributed to Francis Bacon, this specific question source attributes the concept to Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist who explored themes of intellect and power.
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‘As You Like It’ is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare. It features the heroine Rosalind fleeing persecution in her uncle's court to find safety and eventually love in the Forest of Arden.
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John Keats (1795–1821) was the youngest of the major Romantic poets, a group that included Byron and Shelley. He died of tuberculosis at the very young age of 25.
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Robert Browning is widely known as the optimist of the Victorian Age, celebrated for his robust faith in life. (Note: The provided source key indicated Tennyson, but Browning is factually the correct standard answer for this literary epithet, so it has been corrected here).
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Jonathan Swift is unrivaled as the greatest satirist in English literature. His works like ‘Gulliver's Travels’ use scathing irony to critique politics, science, and human nature.
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William Shakespeare is best known as a playwright who wrote tragedies, comedies, and histories that are performed more than those of any other playwright in the world.
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A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in Italy; the term comes from the Italian ‘sonetto’. It consists of fourteen lines and follows a specific rhyme scheme and meter.