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Moliere. "The Bourgeois Gentleman." Tartuffe and The Bourgeois Gentleman. Dover Publications, 1998, act 2, sc. 4.

Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 1.

Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Shakespeare, William. "Venus and Adonis." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817." John Keats Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Milton, John. "Areopagitica." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Pope, Alexander. "To Gay, Twickenham, Oct. 16, 1727." Alexander Pope: Selected Letters, edited by Howard Erksine-Hill. Oxford University Press, 2000, no. 16.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 3.

Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 6.

Shakespeare, William. "Troilus and Cressida." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 3, st. 8.

Wordsworth, William. "My heart leaps up when I behold." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Yeats, W. B. "A Song." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.