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This line is from 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The full line is 'Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred'.
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John Keats is often called the 'Poet of Sensuousness' because his poetry appeals intensely to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch).
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This is a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous 'I Have a Dream' speech. The missing words form the phrase 'I have a dream'.
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John Keats trained as a surgeon and apothecary before dedicating himself entirely to poetry, though his medical career was short.
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'To Autumn' (often called Ode to Autumn) is one of the most famous odes written by John Keats in 1819.
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This legal maxim is often attributed to William E. Gladstone. It means that if legal redress is available for a party that has suffered some injury, but is not forthcoming in a timely fashion, it is effectively the same as having no redress at all.
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'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is one of the 'Great Odes' of 1819 written by the Romantic poet John Keats.
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This famous opening sentence is from 'The Social Contract' (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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'Ode to a Nightingale' is a poem by John Keats, exploring themes of nature, transience, and mortality.
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John Keats died of tuberculosis (consumption) in Rome at the very young age of 25.