| Literature of the 17th Century and Earlier |
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| The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer |
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| Beowulf Unknown; translated by Seamus Heaney |
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| Twelfth Night William Shakespeare |
| Utopia Thomas More |
| The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Praise of Folly Erasmus |