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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English languag

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"What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man"

- Stephen Greenblatt

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This quote is written / told by Stephen Greenblatt somewhere between November 7, 1943 and today. He/she was a famous Critic from USA. The author also have 19 other quotes.

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