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- Robert Browning

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Academic Focus: Metric analysis / Historical dialect interpretation. Engaging with diverse historical English builds phonetic agility, linguistic empathy, and reading stamina valued in selective entry exams.

Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly,

May gaze through these faint smokes curling whitely,

As thou pliest thy trade in this devil's-smithy--

Which is the poison to poison her, prithee?

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To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.

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John Keats

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John Keats1795–182118th centuryRomantic John Keats (1795-1821) was a English poet associated with Romantic. ReadingWillow includes public-domain poems by this author for classroom study.

Did you know?

  • Before becoming a poet, Keats trained as a surgeon and apothecary. He abandoned medicine at 21, telling a friend that poetry was his true calling.
  • He wrote many of his greatest works — including 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' — in a single extraordinary burst of creativity in 1819.
  • Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome aged just 25. At his request, his gravestone bears no name, only the inscription: 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.'
  • He fell deeply in love with his neighbour Fanny Brawne, writing her hundreds of passionate letters, but they never married due to his failing health and lack of funds.

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