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John Keats is a Romantic poet known for his devotion to beauty, famously writing 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' in his Ode on a Grecian Urn.
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'Roads to Freedom' is a book by Bertrand Russell suggesting socialism, anarchism, and syndicalism as routes to social freedom.
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While Geoffrey Chaucer is the Father of English Poetry, in the context of these specific options, he is the intended answer for the foundational figure of English verse.
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'The Merchant of Venice' is a play by William Shakespeare, known for the trial scene and the character of the Jewish moneylender Shylock.
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'Julius Caesar' is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that depicts the conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar and his assassination.
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'Epicoene, or The Silent Woman' is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson, originally performed in 1609.
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A prominent theme in Elizabethan tragedy is revenge, as seen in Thomas Kyd's 'The Spanish Tragedy' and Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
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'Macbeth' is a play (specifically a tragedy) by William Shakespeare that dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition.
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'Paradise Lost' is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton, concerning the biblical story of the Fall of Man.
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John Milton is celebrated as the greatest English epic poet for his masterpiece 'Paradise Lost', written in blank verse.