'What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones / The labour of an age in piled stones… Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid / Under a star-ypointing pyramid?' Who wrote these lines?
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Correct answer: B. John Milton
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Milton's 'On Shakespeare' (1630), printed anonymously in the Second Folio (1632): Shakespeare has built himself 'a live-long monument' in his readers.
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