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LiteratureClassics.com, part of the Classics Network of websites, is
a leading provider of information on texts generally considered
to be worthy of scholarship. The site features essays, electronic texts,
links and resources for hundreds of literature authors, in a dynamic, interactive
environment.
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QUOTES is a database of more than 9,000 quotes from literature texts
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TERMS is a comprehensive dictionary of literary terms, with entries for literary techniques, genres, and historical periods.
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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.