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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>Matthew Arnold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Explore the life and legacy of Matthew Arnold, the Victorian poet and critic whose reflective verse and cultural writings sought moral clarity in an age of doubt.]]></description>
		
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		<title>When I Was One-and-Twenty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
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		<title>The Charge of the Light Brigade</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[crimean war]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analysis of Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade, revealing its rhythm, heroism, and the tragic courage behind the Crimean War charge.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Invictus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Invictus” captures unbroken resolve in the face of suffering — William Ernest Henley’s immortal cry of the unconquered soul.]]></description>
		
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		<title>To an Athlete Dying Young</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A meditation on youth, fame, and mortality, where early death preserves glory from decay.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Darkling Thrush</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wintry century’s despair meets a thrush’s song of inexplicable hope.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Goblin Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rossetti’s narrative poem of temptation and sisterly sacrifice, where desire, commerce, and redemption collide in richly musical Victorian verse.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dover Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” contrasts beauty and despair, exploring lost faith and the enduring need for love in a changing world.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gerard Manley Hopkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Discover the life and poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins — the Jesuit poet whose faith and innovation reshaped modern English verse.]]></description>
		
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