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'An Essay on Man' is a philosophical poem, written in heroic couplets, by Alexander Pope.
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Francis Bacon is best known as an essayist and philosopher, often called the father of the English essay.
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These lines are from W.B. Yeats's poem 'Easter, 1916', regarding the Easter Rising in Ireland.
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'Murder in the Cathedral' is a verse drama by T.S. Eliot about the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
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'All for Love' is a heroic tragedy by John Dryden, which is an imitation of Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra'.
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Caliban is a character in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'.
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'Caesar and Cleopatra' is a play by George Bernard Shaw, offering a different view than Shakespeare's.
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'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling' is a comic novel by Henry Fielding.
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The novel centers on the hunt for Moby Dick, a white sperm whale.
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From 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.