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Shakespeare, William. "Venus and Adonis." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Twain, Mark. "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven." The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain, edited by Lawrence Berkove. Modern Library, 2004, ch. 1.

Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817." John Keats Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Elephant's Child." The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Wordsworth Editions, 1999.

Carlyle, Thomas. "Goethe's Helena." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Kierkegaard, Soren. The Sickness unto Death, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1989.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861, edited by Damion Searls. New York Review of Books, 2009, pt. 2.

Milton, John. "Areopagitica." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Pope, Alexander. "To Gay, Twickenham, Oct. 16, 1727." Alexander Pope: Selected Letters, edited by Howard Erksine-Hill. Oxford University Press, 2000, no. 16.

Turgenev, Ivan. A Month in the Country. Oxford University Press, 1991, act 1.

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 3.

Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government, edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, 1980, ch. 8, sect. 95.

Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 30.

Wilde, Oscar. "A Woman of No Importance." The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.