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Langston Hughes

American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was born

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Black Pierrot, A

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Ambrose Philips died, 1749

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What artistic movement, epitomized by the poet Oscar Wilde, was satirized in the Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan operetta Patience ?

Answer

The Decadent Movement

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