English Literature CLEP – Flashcards
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Caedmon's Hymn
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Old English Poetry
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The Dream of the Rood
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Old English Poetry
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Beowulf
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Old English Poetry
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The Wanderer
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Old English Poetry
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The Battle of Maldon
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Old English Poetry
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The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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To Rosamond
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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To His Scribe Adam
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Complaint to His Purse
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Mercilesse Beauty
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Gentilesse
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Truth
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Sir Orfeo
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Middle English Poetry
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Middle English Poetry
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Pearl
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Middle English Poetry
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Piers Plowman
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Middle English Poetry
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Fowls in the Frith
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Middle English Lyrics
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Alison
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Middle English Lyrics
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My Lief is Faren in Londe
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Middle English Lyrics
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Western Wind
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Middle English Lyrics
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I Have a Younger Sister
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Middle English Lyrics
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A Bitter Lullaby
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Middle English Lyrics
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The Cuckoo Song
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Middle English Lyrics
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Tell Me, Wight in the Broom
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Middle English Lyrics
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I Am of Ireland
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Middle English Lyrics
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Sunset on Calvary
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Middle English Lyrics
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I Sing of a Maiden
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Middle English Lyrics
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Adam Lay Bound
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Middle English Lyrics
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The Corpus Christi Carol
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Middle English Lyrics
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The Second Shepherds' Play
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Mystery play
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Everyman
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Morality Play
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Lord Randall
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Popular Ballads
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Edward
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Popular Ballads
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Barbara Allen
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Popular Ballads
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The Wife of Usher's Well
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Popular Ballads
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The Three Ravens
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Popular Ballads
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Bonny George Campbell
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Popular Ballads
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Sir Patrick Spens
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Popular Ballads
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The Bonny Earl of Murray
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Popular Ballads
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Thomas Rhymer
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Popular Ballads
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Robin Hood and the Three Squires
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Popular Ballads
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St. Steven and King Herod
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Popular Ballads
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Morte D'Arthur
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Sir Thomas Malory
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Preface to Morte D'Arthur
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William Caxton
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Utopia
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Sir Thomas More
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Colin Clout
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John Skelton
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Upon a Dead Man's Head
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John Skelton
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Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
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John Skelton
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Lullay, Lullay, Like a Child
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John Skelton
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To Mistress Margaret Hussey
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John Skelton
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The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Farewell, Love
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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My Galley
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Madam, Withouten Many Words
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Whoso List to Hunt
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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My Lute, Awake!
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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They Flee From Me
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Divers Doth Use
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Tangled I Was in Love's Snare
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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In Spain
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Mine Own John Poins
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Love, that Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought
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Henry Howard
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The Soote Season
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Henry Howard
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Alas! So All Things Do Hold Their Peace
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Henry Howard
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Give Place, Ye Lovers, Here Before
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Henry Howard
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My Friend, The Things that Do Attain
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Henry Howard
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Epitaph on Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Henry Howard
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Prisoned in Windsor, He Recounteth His Pleasure There Passed
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Henry Howard
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Ye Goatherd Gods
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Thou Blind Man's Mark
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Leave Me, O Love
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Sir Philip Sidney
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The Nightingale
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Astrophel and Stella
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Sir Philip Sidney
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An Apology for Poetry
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Sir Philip Sidney
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The Shepheardes Calendar
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Edmund Spenser
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The Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spenser
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Epithalamion
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Edmund Spenser
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Hero and Leander
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Christopher Marlowe
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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Christopher Marlowe
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The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus
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Christopher Marlowe
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
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William Shakespeare
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The Phoenix and the Turtle
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William Shakespeare
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Henry IV
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William Shakespeare
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King Lear
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William Shakespeare
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Hamlet
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William Shakespeare
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Macbeth
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William Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar
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William Shakespeare
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Spring, the Sweet Spring
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Thomas Nashe
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A Litany in Time of Plague
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Thomas Nashe
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Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil
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Thomas Nashe
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
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Sir Walter Ralegh
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On The Life of Man
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Sir Walter Ralegh
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- - - to His Son
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Sir Walter Ralegh
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Walsinghame
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Sir Walter Ralegh
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The Lie
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Sir Walter Ralegh
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Farewell, False Love
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Sir Walter Ralegh
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The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself
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Sir Walter Ralegh
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The Burning Babe
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Robert Southwell
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Delia
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Samuel Daniel
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Idea
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Michael Drayton
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My Sweetest Lesbia
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Thomas Campion
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When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
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Thomas Campion
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When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground
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Thomas Campion
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Rose-cheeked Laura
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Thomas Campion
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What if A Day
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Thomas Campion
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Never Love Unless You Can
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Thomas Campion
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There is a Garden in Her Face
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Thomas Campion
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Think'st Thou to Seduce Me Then
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Thomas Campion
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Fain Would I Wed
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Thomas Campion
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Back and Side Go Bare, Go Bare
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Anonymous 16th century lyric
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In Praise of a Contented Mind
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Anonymous 16th century lyric
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Though Amaryllis Dance in Green
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Anonymous 16th century lyric
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The Queen's Champion Retires
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Anonymous 16th century lyric
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The Shepherd's Consort
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Anonymous 16th century lyric
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Come Away, Come, Sweet Love!
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Anonymous 16th century lyric
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Thule, The Period of Cosmography
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Anonymous 16th century lyric
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Madrigal (My Love in her attire doth show her wit)
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Anonymous 16th century lyric
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Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
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Anonymous 16th century lyric
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The Silver Swan
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Anonymous 16th century lyric
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First Authorized English Translation of the Bible
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The Great Bible
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Began by William Tyndale, Published by Miles Coverdale
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The Coverdale Bible
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Translated by Protestants who fled from Queen Mary
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The Geneva Bible
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Commissioned by James I of England
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The King James Bible
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Acts and Monuments
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John Foxe
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The Courtier
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Sir Thomas Hoby
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Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
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Richard Hooker
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A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia
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Thomas Hariot
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The Good-Morrow
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John Donne
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"Go and Catch a Falling Star"
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John Donne
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The Undertaking
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John Donne
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The Indifferent
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John Donne
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The Canonization
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John Donne
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A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
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John Donne
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Love's Alchemy
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John Donne
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The Flea
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John Donne
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
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John Donne
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The Ecstasy
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John Donne
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Lovers' Infiniteness
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John Donne
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The Sun Rising
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John Donne
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Air and Angels
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John Donne
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Break of Day
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John Donne
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A Valediction: Of Weeping
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John Donne
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The Funeral
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John Donne
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The Relic
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John Donne
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An Anatomy of the World
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John Donne
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Elegy XI. The Bracelet
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John Donne
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Elegy XIX. Going to Bed
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John Donne
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Satire III, Religion
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John Donne
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Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward
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John Donne
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Holy Sonnets
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John Donne
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A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany
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John Donne
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Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
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John Donne
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A Hymn to God the Father
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John Donne
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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John Donne
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Meditations
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John Donne
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On the Weight of Eternal Glory
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John Donne
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"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee"
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John Donne
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Volpone
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Ben Jonson
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To Penshurst
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Ben Jonson
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Inviting a Friend to Supper
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Ben Jonson
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An Ode ("High Spirited friend")
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Ben Jonson
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To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne's Satires
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Ben Jonson
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Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
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Ben Jonson
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Queen and Huntress
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Ben Jonson
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Song: To Celia
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Ben Jonson
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In the Person of Woman-kind
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Ben Jonson
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On My First Daughter
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Ben Jonson
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On My First Son
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Ben Jonson
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Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
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Ben Jonson
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To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare
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Ben Jonson
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To John Donne
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Ben Jonson
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To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison
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Ben Jonson
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Ode to Himself
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Ben Jonson
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Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
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Ben Jonson
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The Duchess of Malfi
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John Webster
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The Argument of His Book
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Robert Herrick
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His Prayer to Ben Jonson
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Robert Herrick
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To the Water Nymphs Drinking at the Fountain
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Robert Herrick
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To the Lily in a Crystal
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Robert Herrick
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To Blossoms
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Robert Herrick
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
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Robert Herrick
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Corinna's Going A-Maying
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Robert Herrick
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Delight in Disorder
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Robert Herrick
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Upon Julia's Clothes
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Robert Herrick
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Upon Prue, his Maid
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Robert Herrick
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Upon His Spaniel Tracy
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Robert Herrick
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Dreams
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Robert Herrick
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To Lar
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Robert Herrick
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His Return to London
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Robert Herrick
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Virtue
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George Herbert
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Man ("My God, I heard this day")
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George Herbert
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The Pilgrimage
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George Herbert
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Easter Wings
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George Herbert
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The Altar
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George Herbert
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The Flower
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George Herbert
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The Forerunners
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George Herbert
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Redemption
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George Herbert
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Love Unknown
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George Herbert
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Time
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George Herbert
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Death
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George Herbert
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The Collar
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George Herbert
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The Pulley
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George Herbert
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Discipline
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George Herbert
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Jordan I
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George Herbert
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Jordan II
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George Herbert
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Denial
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George Herbert
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Aaron
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George Herbert
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Love III
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George Herbert
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The Flaming Heart
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Richard Crashaw
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To the Countess of Denbigh
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Richard Crashaw
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On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody
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Richard Crashaw
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To the Infant Martyrs
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Richard Crashaw
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I am the Door
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Richard Crashaw
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Luke 11
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Richard Crashaw
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Upon the Infant Martyrs
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Richard Crashaw
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Luke 7
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Richard Crashaw
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On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord
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Richard Crashaw
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The Retreat
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Henry Vaughan
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Regeneration
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Henry Vaughan
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Corruption
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Henry Vaughan
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The World
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Henry Vaughan
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They are all Gone into the World of Light!
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Henry Vaughan
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Man ("Weighing the Steadfastness and State")
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Henry Vaughan
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Silence and Stealth of Days!
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Henry Vaughan
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Unprofitableness
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Henry Vaughan
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To His Coy Mistress
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Andrew Marvell
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The Garden
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Andrew Marvell
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The Mower, Against Gardens
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Andrew Marvell
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Damon the Mower
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Andrew Marvell
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The Mower to the Glowworms
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Andrew Marvell
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The Mower's Song
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Andrew Marvell
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The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
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Andrew Marvell
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The Coronet
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Andrew Marvell
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A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body
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Andrew Marvell
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The Definition of Love
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Andrew Marvell
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Bermudas
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Andrew Marvell
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An Horatian Ode
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Andrew Marvell
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On Shakespeare
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John Milton
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L'Allegro
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John Milton
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Il Pensero
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John Milton
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Lycidas
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John Milton
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How Soon Hath Time
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John Milton
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On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament
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John Milton
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On the Late Massacre in the Piedmont
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John Milton
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When I consider How My Light is Spent
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John Milton
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Methought I saw My Late Espoused Saint
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John Milton
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To My Friend, Mr. Henry Lawes, on His airs
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John Milton
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Areopagitica
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John Milton
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Paradise Lost
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John Milton
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Paradise Regained
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John Milton
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Samson Agonistes
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John Milton
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The Faithful Shepherdess
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Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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Valentinian
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Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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Lovers, Rejoice!
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Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn
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Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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The Passionate Man's Song
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Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne
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Thomas Carew
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Disdain Returned
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Thomas Carew
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A Song ("Ask me no more where Jove bestows")
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Thomas Carew
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To Ben Jonson
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Thomas Carew
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A Rapture
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Thomas Carew
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The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied
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Edmund Waller
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Song ("Go, Lovely Rose")
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Edmund Waller
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On a Girdle
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Edmund Waller
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Of English Verse
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Edmund Waller
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Of the Last Verses in the Book
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Edmund Waller
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Song ("Why so pale and wan, fond lover?")
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Sir John Suckling
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Loving and Beloved
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Sir John Suckling
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Out Upon It!
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Sir John Suckling
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To Althea, From Prison
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Richard Lovelace
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To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
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Richard Lovelace
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The Grasshopper
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Richard Lovelace
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The Snail
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Richard Lovelace
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Wonder
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Thomas Traherne
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On News
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Thomas Traherne
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On Leaping over the Moon
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Thomas Traherne
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To Mr. Hobbes
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Abraham Cowley
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To the Royal Society
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Abraham Cowley
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Of Truth
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Francis Bacon
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Of Marriage and Single Life
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Francis Bacon
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Of Studies
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Francis Bacon
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Of Negotiating
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Francis Bacon
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Of Masques and Triumphs
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Francis Bacon
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Novum Organum
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Francis Bacon
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The New Atlantis
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Francis Bacon
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Robert Burton
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Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes
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The Life of Dr. John Donne
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Izaak Walton
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Religio Medici
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Sir Thomas Browne
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Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
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Sir Thomas Browne
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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John Locke
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The Diary
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Samuel Pepys
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The History of the Royal Society
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Thomas Sprat
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A Letter of Mr. - -, Professor of the Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, Containing his New Theory about Light and Colors
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Sir Isaac Newton
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Annus Mirabilis
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John Dryden
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Marriage a la Mode
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John Dryden
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Absalom and Achitophel
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John Dryden
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Mac Flecknoe
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John Dryden
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The Memory of Mr. Oldham
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John Dryden
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To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Kiligrew
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John Dryden
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A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
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John Dryden
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Epigram on Milton
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John Dryden
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Alexander's Feast
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John Dryden
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The Secular Masque
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John Dryden
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An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
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John Dryden
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The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic License
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John Dryden
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A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire
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John Dryden
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The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern
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John Dryden
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
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John Bunyan
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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John Bunyan
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Love for Love
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William Congreve
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A True Revelation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal
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Daniel Defoe
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Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe
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Hudibras
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Samuel Butler
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The Disabled Debauchee
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John Wilmot
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A Nocturnal Reverie
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Anne Finch
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On Myself
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Anne Finch
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An Epitaph
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Matthew Prior
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The Birth of the Squire. An Eclogue
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John Gay
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The Lover: A Ballad
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Stella's Birthday, 1721
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Jonathan Swift
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A Description of a City Shower
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Jonathan Swift
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Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
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Jonathan Swift
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A Tale of a Tub
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Jonathan Swift
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An Argument Against the Abolishing of Christianity in England
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Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver's Travels
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Jonathan Swift
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A Modest Proposal
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Jonathan Swift
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The Tatler
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Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
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The Spectator
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Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
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An Essay on Criticism
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Alexander Pope
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The Rape of the Lock
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Alexander Pope
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Ode on Solitude
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Alexander Pope
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Epistle to Miss Blount
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Alexander Pope
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Eloisa to Abelard
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Alexander Pope
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An Essay on Man
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Alexander Pope
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The Universal Prayer
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Alexander Pope
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Epistle II. To a Lady
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Alexander Pope
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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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Alexander Pope
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The Dunciad
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Alexander Pope
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The Vanity of Human Wishes
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Samuel Johnson
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Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick
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Samuel Johnson
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On the death of Dr. Robert Levet
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Samuel Johnson
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A Short Song of Congratulation
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Samuel Johnson
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Translation of Horace
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Samuel Johnson
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The Rambler
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Samuel Johnson
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The Idler
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Samuel Johnson
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
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Samuel Johnson
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A Dictionary of the English Language
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Samuel Johnson
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Lives of the Poets
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Samuel Johnson
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Preface to Shakespeare
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Samuel Johnson
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Boswell on the Grand Tour
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James Boswell
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD
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James Boswell
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Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies
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Edmund Burke
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The Seasons
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James Thomson
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An Ode on Aeolus's Harp
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James Thomson
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Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
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Thomas Gray
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Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat
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Thomas Gray
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Hymn to Adversity
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Thomas Gray
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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Thomas Gray
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Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
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William Collins
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Ode on the Poetical Character
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William Collins
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Ode to Evening
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William Collins
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Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson
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William Collins
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Jubilate Agno
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Christopher Smart
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The Deserted Village
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Oliver Goldsmith
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A Song to David
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Christopher Smart
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The Village
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George Crabbe
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The Task
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William Cowper
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The Borough
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George Crabbe
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The Castaway
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William Cowper
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The Vicar of Wakefield
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Oliver Goldsmith
