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  2. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent - Wikipedia

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    However, the references to light and darkness in the poem make it virtually certain that Milton's blindness was at least a secondary theme. The sonnet is in the Petrarchan form, with the rhyme scheme a b b a a b b a c d e c d e but adheres to the Miltonic conception of the form, with a greater usage of enjambment .

  3. Charles Dickens - Wikipedia

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    Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]

  4. Milton's 1645 Poems - Wikipedia

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    The 1673 book includes all the poems in Milton's 1645 Poems, though not the prefatory material. In addition it includes a few poems written before 1645 but not published in the earlier book, and a number of poems written after 1645. The tract on education is the same as in the 1645 book (Revard, 2009, [5] p. 284ff).

  5. Letters of Charles Dickens - Wikipedia

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    The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died. [1] They have been described as "invariably idiosyncratic, exuberant, vivid, and amusing…widely recognized as a significant body of work in themselves, part of the Dickens ...

  6. Talk:When I Consider How My Light is Spent - Wikipedia

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    I made some minor changes to conform the text presented here to the Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fourth Edition. They seem to clarify the local meaning of the poem somewhat but other editions of the text differ. So further emendations by a Milton authority might be advisable - even a return to the previous version.

  7. Portrait of Charles Dickens - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Charles Dickens is an 1839 portrait painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise depicting the English novelist Charles Dickens. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Dickens debut novel The Pickwick Papers had been a popular success, which he had followed up with Nicholas Nickelby .

  8. Thomas Carlyle - Wikipedia

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    Carlyle and the Defence were supported by John Ruskin, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, and Charles Kingsley. [ 117 ] [ 118 ] From December 1866 to March 1867, [ 119 ] Carlyle resided at the home of Louisa Baring, Lady Ashburton in Menton , where he wrote reminiscences of Irving, Jeffrey, Robert Southey , and William Wordsworth .

  9. Mugby Junction - Wikipedia

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    "Mugby Junction" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the issue, including the frame narrative in which "the Gentleman ...