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T.S. Eliot wrote 'The Waste Land', considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century.
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Peter Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019 for his influential work exploring the periphery and the specificity of human experience.
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'Jane Eyre' is a novel by Charlotte Bronte, published under the pen name Currer Bell in 1847.
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William Wordsworth is a central figure of the Romantic Age, launching it with 'Lyrical Ballads' (with Coleridge).
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'The Way of the World' is a Restoration comedy by William Congreve, premiered in 1700.
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Satan speaks this famous line in Book I of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'.
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D.H. Lawrence was English. Wilde, Joyce, and Swift were of Irish birth or significant connection.
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'Ozymandias' is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, exploring the inevitable decline of leaders and empires.
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Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick', a novel about the monomaniacal quest of Captain Ahab.
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This line concludes P.B. Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'.