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Classic Literature, Authors, and Poets Crossword Puzzle

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Authors, playwrights, poets, plays, poems, novels, and influential non-fiction are fair game in this crossword.
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      1. He wrote "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
      4. Sherwood Anderson's "Winesberg" is set in this state
      6. Old english epic featuring Grendel
      7. Emily, Charlotte, and Anne
      9. First name of "Scarlet Letter" author
      12. Wallace Stevens: "13 Ways of Looking __ a Blackbird"
      13. Old English Work: "The Dream __ the Rood"
      14. Southerner who wrote "The Violent Bear it Away Author"
      15. Chaucer calls this pilgrim "Madame Eglantine"
      16. Arnold quote: "it brought Into his mind the turbid __ and flow Of human misery"
      17. Keat's "The __ of St. Agnes"
      18. "The Faerie Queen" author
      22. Alexander Pope's "An Essay __ Criticism"
      23. Robinson Crusoe author (2 words)
      28. Surrey: "__ Friend, the Things That Do Attain"
      29. Alexander Pope translated this epic of Homer's
      30. Yeats: "A Deep-sworn __"
      31. The Four Ages of Poetry author Thomas __ Peacock
      32. Pope: "To __ is human"
      33. Keats "Ode On a Grecian __"
      34. __ Eliot, poet
      35. Dylan: "Do Not __ Gentle into that Good Night"
      36. Orwell's "__ Farm"

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      1. Shakespeare is sometimes known as the __ __ __ (3 words)
      2. Lord Byron's playboy in verse (2 words_
      3. Stephen Crane's short story "The Open __"
      4. "__ Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
      5. John Keats: "__ to a Nightingale"
      6. Author of the play "Volpone" (2 words)
      8. Dickinson: "Because I could not stop for Death-- / He kindly stopped for __"
      10. Children's classic story: "The Little Red __"
      11. He wrote essays under the penname Elia
      19. Wordsworth: "__ with cold beads of midnight dew"
      20. Mark Twain's article: "A Couple of ___ Experiences"
      21. Margery __'s "The Book of Margery ___"
      22. First name of "She Stoops to Conquer" author
      24. First name of "Brave New World" author
      25. "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow" author
      26. "Screwtape Letters" author
      27. Waugh's first name