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I'll give five:
Our most eloquent president: Abraham Lincoln.
The best poet of the English language, 1066-1700 (Shakespeare aside): John Donne.
The best poet of the English language since 1700: Dylan Thomas.
The best folk/rock poet/performer ever: Bob Dylan.
The best work of prose of the 20th Century: Lord of the Rings.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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