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titles, including 'Contemporary novelists' and
'Contemporary poets'
At
Encyclopaedia Britannica online
you can find articles and web links about literature and poetry plus 'Gateway to the
classics', the complete text of over 220 works by 140 of the western world's
most influential and well-known authors
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information see the complete text of 'The Times' newspaper in the Times Digital
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