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O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) was an American short story writer.
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John Keats was a Romantic poet (early 19th century), whereas Yeats, Auden, and Eliot are Modernists (20th century).
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'No Second Troy' is a poem by W.B. Yeats, written in 1916, addressing Maud Gonne.
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Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for her novel 'The God of Small Things'.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' was written by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez (in Spanish).
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The play 'Hamlet' is set in the Kingdom of Denmark.
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'Julius Caesar' is classified as one of Shakespeare's Roman histories (or tragedies based on history).
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William Blake was both a visionary poet and a skilled painter/engraver.
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Jonathan Swift is renowned for his satirical works like 'A Modest Proposal' and 'Gulliver's Travels'.
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This line is from Alexander Pope's 'An Essay on Criticism'.