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1. Which Renaissance poet wrote the line,
"London, thou art the Flower of Cities all!"
2. What is London called in William Shakespeare's play "Cymbeline"?
3. Who in the eighteenth century wrote a poem called "Farewell to London" which begins,
"Dear, damn'd, distracting Town, Farewell!"
4. Which one of these quotations does *not* come from the mouth of the great Samuel Johnson?
5. Who described London as "a great wen growing upon the fair face of England"?
6. Which one of these phrases occurs in William Blake's poem "London"?
7. Which Romantic poet wrote that:
"Hell is a city much like London,
A populous and a smoky city"?
8. Which Victorian novelist claimed that "London is a modern Babylon" and that "London is a roost for every bird"?
9. The Irish poet W.B.Yeats referred to "this melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually". In which London street did Yeats live for many years?
10. Which twentieth-century poet wrote,
"I thought of London spread out in the sun,
Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat"?
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