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Edward Lytton was an English novelist, playwright and politician. Many famous literary phrases come from Lord Lytton such as: "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and "it was a dark and stormy night". An excerpt from the preface reads, "during the early years of the first and most brilliant successes of the French Republic, in the general ferment of society, and the brief equalization of ranks, Claude's high-placed love; his ardent feelings, his unsettled principles (the struggle between which makes the passion of this drama), his ambition, and his career, were phenomena that characterized the age, and in which the spirit of the nation went along with the extravagance of the individual." This play for first performed at Covent Garden Theatre in February of 1838.

Madison Cawein (1865 -1914) was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His wrote thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. Cawein's poetry showed his love of nature and early English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusions. Myth and Romance is an 1899 book of poetry. This collection includes Myth and Romance, Genius Loci, The Rain-Crow, The Harvest Moon, The Old Water-Mill, Anthem of Dawn, Dithyrambics, Hymn to Desire, Music, Jotunheim, Dionysia, The Last Song, Romaunt of the Oak, Morgan le Fay, The Dream of Roderick, Zyps of Zirl, The Glowworm. Ghosts, The Purple Valleys, The Land of Illusion, Spirit of Dreams, To a Wind-Flower, Microcosm, Fortune, Death, The Soul, Conscience, Youth, Life's Seasons, Old Homes, Field and Forest Call, Meeting in Summer, Swinging, Rosemary, Ghost Stories, Dolce far Niente, Words, Reasons, Evasion, In May, Will you Forget?, Clouds of the Autumn Night, The Glory and the Dream, Snow and Fire, Restraint, Why Should I Pine?, When Lydia Smiles, The Rose, A Ballad of Sweethearts, Her Portrait, A Song for Yule, The Puritans' Christmas, Spring, Lines, When Ships put out to Sea, The "Kentucky", Quatrains, and Processional.