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John Keats is widely referred to as the Poet of Beauty due to his aesthetic philosophy and his famous declaration 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever'.
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'A Farewell to Arms' is a semi-autobiographical novel by American author Ernest Hemingway, concerning events during the Italian campaigns of WWI.
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'Macbeth' is one of William Shakespeare's most popular tragedies, written in the early 1600s, focusing on ambition and guilt.
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This is the most famous soliloquy in the English language, spoken by the protagonist in William Shakespeare's tragedy 'Hamlet'.
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T.S. Eliot was a Modernist poet, whereas Shelley, Coleridge, and Keats were major figures of the Romantic movement in the early 19th century.
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In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark, and the story is set at the royal castle in Elsinore.
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Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore are central characters in E.M. Forster's novel 'A Passage to India', which explores British colonial rule in India.
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These lines are the conclusion of 'Fern Hill', a poem by Dylan Thomas about his childhood visits to his aunt's farm.
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This line is spoken by Doctor Faustus in Christopher Marlowe's play 'Doctor Faustus' upon seeing the spirit of Helen of Troy.
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Alfred Doolittle is the dustman father of Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's play 'Pygmalion'.