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The Return of the Native

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Thomas Hardy

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Clym Yeobright

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Return of the Native

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One character plays the Turkish Knight in the play “Saint George” in this novel

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The Return of the Native

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Thomas Hardy poem written in response to the sinking of the Titanic

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Convergence of the Twain

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Adapted by Simon Armitage written shortly after 9/11 terrorist attacks

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Convergence of the Twain

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A creature crawls “over the mirrors meant/to glass the opulent” in this poem

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Convergence of the Twain

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Dead Man Walking

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Thomas Hardy

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“fling[ed] his soul/upon the growing gloom”

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The Darkling Thrush

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“The Darkling Thrush”

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Thomas Hardy poem

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“leaning upon a coppice gate”

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The Darkling Thrush

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His wife is Emma Gifford, wrote the poems “Rain on a Grave” and “After a Journey” for her

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Thomas Hardy

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A book about a former milkmaid set in the fictional English county of Wessex

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Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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Wife of Angel Clare

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Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy

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Arabella Donn and Sue Bridehead

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Jude the Obscure

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Mayor of Casterbridge

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Thomas Hardy

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Far From the Madding Crowd

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Thomas Hardy

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Under the Greenwood Tree

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Thomas Hardy

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Little Father Time

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Jude the Obscure

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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D H Lawrence

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Eusatasia Vye

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The Return of the Native

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Michael Henchard

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Mayor of Casterbridge

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Lucetta

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Mayor of Casterbridge

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Donald Farfrae

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Mayor of Casterbridge

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A footnote with an “isolated and weird character”

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The Return of the Native

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“The Ruined Maid”

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Thomas Hardy

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Pygmalion

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George Bernard Shaw

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A man called “most original moralist in England” takes ten pounds instead of five and explains that “undeserving poverty is my line” in this play

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Pygmalion

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Adapted into the musical My Fair Lady

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Pygmalion

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Eliza Doolittle

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Pygmalion

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This play begins in Covent Garden

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Pygmalion

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Henry Higgins

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Pygmalion

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Colonel Pickering

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Pygmalion

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Man and Superman

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George Bernard Shaw

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A character in this play is called a “squashed cabbage leaf”

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Pygmalion

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Arms and the Man

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George Bernard Shaw

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Raina Petkoff

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Arms and the Man

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The servant girl Louka

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Arms and the Man

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War with the Newts

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Karel Čapek

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40
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Major Barbara

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George Bernard Shaw

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This play’s title comes from the Aeneid

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Arms and the Man

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42
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Candida

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George Bernard Shaw

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Quintessence of Ibsenism (about Hedda Gabler)

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George Bernard Shaw

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The main character of this play is dressed in a blue kimono by the housekeeper Mrs. Pearce

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Pygmalion

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45
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“What Happened Afterward”

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George Bernard Shaw

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46
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Character portrayed by Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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Eliza Doolittle

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47
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This play has a woman who yells “not bloody likely!”

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Pygmalion

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48
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Adolphus Cusins

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Major Barbara

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49
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Ode on Melancholy

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John Keats

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Ode to a Nightingale

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John Keats

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

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John Keats

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52
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This poem address Love, Ambition, and Poesy

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Ode on Indolence

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53
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“Thou wast not born for death” and asks “do I wake or sleep?”

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Ode to a Nightingale

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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

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Adonais (dedicated to Keats)

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Percy Shelley

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This poem was originally published under the pseudonym “Caviare”

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La Belle Dame sans Merci

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57
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La Belle Dame sans Merci

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John Keats

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58
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“Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again”

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John Keats

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“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”

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John Keats

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60
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Endymion

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A narrative poem by John Keats

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Holy Sonnets/Divine Sonnets/Divine Meditations

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John Donne

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62
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“A Valediction of My Name, In the Window”

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John Donne

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“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”

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John Donne

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Author analysed in TS Eliot’s “The Metaphysical Poets”

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John Donne

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65
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“The Canonization”

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John Donne

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66
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“Death, be not proud”

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Holy Sonnets (Sonnet 10)

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67
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“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

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Christopher Marlowe

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68
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“Come live with me and be my love” is the opening line of this pastoral love poem

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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Husband of Anne More

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John Donne

70
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“Slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men”

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Death, be not proud

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“The Second Coming”

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William Butler Yeats

72
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“Sailing to Byzantium”

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William Butler Yeats

73
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“slouches towards Bethlehem to be born”

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“The Second Coming”

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“Easter, 1916”

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William Butler Yeats

75
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“Turning and turning in the widening gyre”

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“The Second Coming”

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“Michael Robartes and the Dancer”

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William Butler Yeats

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“The Wanderings of Oisín”, and epic poem

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William Butler Yeats

78
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“an aged man as a paltry thing”

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“Sailing to Byzantium”

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The speaker’s heart is “fastened to a dying animal” in this poem

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“Sailing to Byzantium”

80
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“Among School Children”

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William Butler Yeats

81
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“things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”

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“The Second Coming”

82
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“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”

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William Butler Yeats

83
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“The Final Problem”

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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“the Speckled Band”

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

85
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This man believed in the Cottingley Fairies and was mocked by Harry Houdini

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

86
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The Lost World

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

87
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Professor Challenger discovers dinosaurs in South America in this novel

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The Lost World

88
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Sonnets from the Portuguese

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

89
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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” (Sonnet 43)

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

90
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“Yes, call me by my pet-name!” (Sonnet 33)

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

91
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The narrator of this poem loves the addressee “freely as men strive for right”

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Sonnet 43 (Sonnets from the Portuguese)

92
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Macbeth

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Shakespeare

93
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Weird Sisters

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The witches from Macbeth

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“L’allegro”

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John Milton

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“Il Penseroso”

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John Milton

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Areopagitica

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John Milton

97
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This poem features the invocations of Saturn, Vesta, and Urania

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Il Penseroso

98
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Kidnapped

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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David Balfour

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Kidnapped

100
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Captain Hoseason

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Kidnapped

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The Black Arrow

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Robert Louis Stevenson

102
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A Child’s Garden of Verses

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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This poem opens when the “siege and assault had ceased at Troy”

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Lord Bertilak

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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“To an Athlete Dying Young”

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AE Housman

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“When I was one-and-twenty”

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AE Housman

107
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Korova Milk Bar

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A Clockwork Orange

108
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Welsh poet, “Do not go gentle into that good night”

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Dylan Thomas

109
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“Fern Hill”

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Dylan Thomas

110
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

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Dylan Thomas

111
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Auld Lang Syne

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Robert Burns

112
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Ode to a Mouse

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Robert Burns

113
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“Sylvan historian”

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“Ode on a Grecian Urn”

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This poem mentions “forest branches” and “trodden weed” and the “dales” of paradise

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“Ode on a Grecian Urn”

115
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“My Last Duchess”

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Robert Browning

116
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Porphyria’s Lover

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Robert Browning

117
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“Caliban upon Setebos”

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Robert Browning

118
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“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”

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Robert Browning

119
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Described Fra Pandolf’s painting of a woman whose heart was “too soon made glad”

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Robert Browning

120
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Has a satire of Calvinism subtitled “Natural Theology in the Island”

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Robert Browning

121
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Mr Enfield

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Inspector Newcomen

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Gabriel Utterson

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

124
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This poem ends with a description of a bronze statue by Claus of Innsbruck, depicting Neptune riding a seahorse

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“My Last Duchess”

125
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In a poem from this collection, the speaker claims to be made of “elements and an angelic sprite”

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The Holy Sonnets

126
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Robert Walton

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Frankenstein

127
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“The Dead”

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James Joyce

128
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Gabriel Conroy

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“The Dead”

129
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The tenor Bartell D’Arcy sings “The Lass of Aughrim” in this story

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“The Dead”

130
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Miss Ivors

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“The Dead”

131
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Guests begin to sing “For they are jolly good fellows” in this story

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“The Dead”

132
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Misses Morkin

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“The Dead”

133
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Michael Furey (who is dead)

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“The Dead”

134
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The protagonist of this novel is taken aboard the Covenant under orders from his uncle Ebenezer

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Kidnapped

135
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The Island of Doctor Moreau

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HG Wells

136
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Edward Prendick

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The Island of Doctor Moreau

137
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The Dumb Waiter

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Harold Pinter

138
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The hitmen Ben and Gus

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The Dumbwaiter

139
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The Birthday Party

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Harold Pinter

140
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Stanley Webber

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The Birthday Party

141
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Stanley Webber

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The Birthday Party

142
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The Rape of the Lock

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Alexander Pope

143
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Clarissa gives the Baron a pair of scissors

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The Rape of the Lock

144
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Cave of Spleen

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The Rape of the Lock

145
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The gnome Umbriel

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The Rape of the Lock

146
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“twelve vast French Romances”

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The Rape of the Lock

147
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“What mighty contests rise from trivial things”

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The Rape of the Lock

148
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Jack Worthing

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The Importance of Being Earnest

149
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Algernon Moncrieff

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The Importance of Being Earnest

150
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Miss Prism

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The Importance of Being Earnest

151
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Gwendolen Fairfax

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The Importance of Being Earnest

152
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A servant prepares cucumber sandwiches which are eaten before the guests arrive in this play

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The Importance of Being Earnest

153
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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Henry Fielding

154
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The Female Husband

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Henry Fielding

155
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Joseph Andrews

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Henry Fielding

156
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Bilfil

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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

157
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Shamela

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Henry Fielding

158
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Sophia Western

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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

159
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“Goblin Market”

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Christina Rossetti

160
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“Pied Beauty”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

161
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“The Wreck of Deutschland”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

162
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“To Autumn”

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John Keats

163
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“The Narrow Way”

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Anne Bronte

164
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“The Three Guides”

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Anne Bronte

165
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The tenant of Wildfell Hill

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Anne Bronte

166
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“uffish thought”

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“The Jabberwocky”

167
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“Agony in Eight Fits”

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Lewis Carroll

168
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“The Hunting of the Snark”

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Lewis Carroll

169
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“To a Skylark”

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Percy Shelley

170
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“The Lark Ascending”

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George Meredith

171
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“Returning, We Hear the Larks”

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Isaac Rosenberg

172
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“Joy—joy—strange joy” and “heights of night”

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“Returning, we hear the larks”

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