Who or what was “Udolpho” in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)?
“Udolpho” in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho was the castle of the evil Montoni in the Italian Apennines, and site of many scary events.
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What poem contains the line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”?
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Which American writers have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Who wrote “Shoot, if you must, this old gray head”?
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