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Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics.
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'The Lotos-Eaters' is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 'Dover Beach' is by Arnold, 'My Last Duchess' by Browning, 'Eve of St. Agnes' by Keats.
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'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, it had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery.
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George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. She used a male pen name to ensure her works would be taken seriously.
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Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot are famous literary collaborators/contemporaries; Pound heavily edited Eliot's masterpiece 'The Waste Land'.
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Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, known for his economical and understated style.
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'A Farewell to Arms' is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I.
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'For Whom the Bell Tolls' is a novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan in the Spanish Civil War.
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'The Old Man and the Sea' is a novella by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1951. It was a major factor in his being awarded the Nobel Prize.
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George Bernard Shaw is widely considered the leading dramatist of his generation and the greatest modern English dramatist.