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Syllabi | Great English Literature

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Readme Why read great literature? Great literature is the heart of a civilization. When we think of the Greeks, we think of Homer and Sophocles, of the Romans, Virgil and Seneca. Dante was Italy’s greatest flourishing, and Shakespeare England’s. These works might be representative of a set of core beliefs or ideas, but they are also extraordinary aesthetic achievements. They record aspects of a society, but they also give them an intensity of expression that has lasting power in the world. Many versions of Romeo & Juliet were played in the London theatres before Shakespeare’s — but it was his

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