Literopedia

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Remembering #WilfredOwen on his Birthday!!
"Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him,
old chum."
- The Next War.

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Remembering #JohnUpdike on his Birthday!!
"I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head."

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Remembering #ThomasGray on his Birthday!!
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,
The bee's collected treasures sweet,
Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet
The still small voice of gratitude.
- #OdeForMusic

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Remembering #MatthewArnold on his Birthday!!
"I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world."

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Remembering #JaneAusten on her Birthday!!
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
- #PrideAndPrejudice

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Remembering #GustaveFlaubert on his Birthday!!
A highly influential French Novelist & the leading exponent of Literary Realism in #FrenchLiterature much celebrated for his masterpiece #MadameBovary

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Remembering #JohnOsborne on his Birthday!!
An English Playwright & Screenwriter, chiefly remembered as the author of the play #LookBackInAnger

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Remembering #EmilyDickinson on her Birthday!!
One of the leading 19th Century American Poets who wrote around 1800 poems. A complete collection of her poetry #ThePoemsOfEmilyDickinson was published in 1955.

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Remembering #JohnMilton on his Birthday!!
The 17th Century English Poet, Pamphleteer & Historian whose Magnum Opus #ParadiseLost has been regarded as the greatest epic poem in English, written in blank verse.

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Remembering #RichardLovelace on his Birthday!
An English Cavalier Poet, popular for his works #ToAltheaFromPrison & #ToLucastaGoingToTheWarres

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Remembering #ThomasDeQuincey on his Memorial Day!!
An English Essayist & Critic, chiefly remembered as the author of #ConfessionsOfAnEnglishOpiumEater

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Remembering #AnthonyTrollope on his Memorial Day!
A Prolific English Novelist of the Victorian Era, chiefly remembered as the author of series of novels called #ChroniclesOfBarsetshire

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Remembering #ChristinaRossetti on her Birthday!!
One of the most significant English Women Poets of the 19th century, best known as the author of #GoblinMarketAndOtherPoems

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Remembering #ThomasCarlyle on his Birthday!!
A Scottish Historian, Satirist & Essayist, best remembered for his works #OnHeroesHeroWorshipAndTheHeroicInHistory & #SartorResartus

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Remembering #JosephConrad on his Birthday!!
A Polish-British Novelist & Short Story Writer, chiefly remembered for his works #HeartOfDarkness & #LordJim

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Remembering #PhilipLarkin on his Memorial Day!!
An English Poet & Novelist, best remembered for his collection of poems #TheWhitsunWeddings & #HighWindows

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#JB - Memorial Day!
Once I found myself on the other side of the ocean, I could see where I came from very clearly, and I could see that I carried myself, which is my home, with me. You can never escape that. I am the grandson of a slave, and I am a writer. I must deal with both

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Remembering #JonathanSwift on his Birthday!!
An Anglo-Irish writer who has been regarded as the foremost Prose Satirist in the English Language, best known for his masterpiece #GulliversTravels

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Remembering #PhilipSidney on his Birthday!!
An English Poet, Courtier & Soldier best known as the author of #AstrophelAndStella, the finest Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle & a Classic of English Literature.

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Remembering #WilliamBlake on his Birthday!!
An English Poet, Artist & Engraver, best remembered for his work #SongsOfInnocenceAndExperience