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		<title>An Essay on Criticism</title>
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		<title>Eloisa to Abelard</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>With Rue My Heart Is Laden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Loveliest of Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Lady of Shalott</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Red, Red Rose</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>In Flanders Fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Virgil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 03:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Explore the life and legacy of Virgil, Rome’s greatest poet and author of The Aeneid, whose epic vision of fate and duty shaped Western literature for millennia.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sappho</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Explore the life and legacy of Sappho, the Greek poet of Lesbos whose lyrical verses on love and longing earned her the title “Tenth Muse.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ovid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Discover the life and legacy of Ovid, the Roman poet whose Metamorphoses and Art of Love transformed myth and emotion into timeless expressions of human creativity.]]></description>
		
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