Known colloquially as “The Bard of Avon,” ______ (poet) was an English poet and playwright who is considered one of the greatest writers to ever use the English language. He wrote at least 37 plays that scholars know of, with most of them labeled is comedies, histories, or tragedies.
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Born in 1788,______ (poet) is a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and the short lyric poem “She Walks in Beauty.”
“Reading maketh a full man; ______ a ready man; and writing an exact man” is written by Francis Bacon, one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era.
______ (poet) was noted for his epic Pardise Lost (1667), which is widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. “When I Consider How My Light is Spent” is one of the best known of the sonnets.
Vanity Fair, an English novel by ______ (author),features probably the greatest anti-heroine in English literature, Becky Sharp, and a plot that revolves around class, social climbing and a financial crisis that will seem eerily familiar to modern readers.