Literature

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Aeneid Virgil
American Poets of the 20th Century
Beowulf Anonymous
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
The Divine Comedy: Inferno Dante Alighieri
The Iliad Homer
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
The Odyssey Homer
Paradise Lost John Milton
Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Anonymous
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