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John Keats is renowned as the Poet of Beauty. His work explores the relationship between art and life, often focusing on the permanence of beauty.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." It was published in the first edition of "Lyrical Ballads" (1798), marking the start of the Romantic movement.
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William Wordsworth wrote the "Lucy poems," a series of five poems written between 1798 and 1801 about an idealized young woman named Lucy who died young.
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P.B. Shelley is known as the poet of Skylark and Winds due to his famous poems "To a Skylark" and "Ode to the West Wind," celebrating these natural forces.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He first appeared in the novel "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887.
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Jules Verne wrote the adventure novel "Around the World in Eighty Days," published in 1872. It tells the story of Phileas Fogg's attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
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Robert Browning was a major English poet of the Victorian age (1837–1901), famous for his mastery of the dramatic monologue.
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Ernest Hemingway wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in 1940. It is a war novel recounting the experiences of Robert Jordan in the Spanish Civil War.
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George Orwell wrote "Animal Farm" (1945), a political allegory/satire reflecting events leading up to the Russian Revolution and the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.
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Boris Pasternak wrote "Doctor Zhivago." The novel, dealing with the effects of the Russian Revolution on a bourgeois family, won him the Nobel Prize, which he was forced to refuse.