Who composed the poem 'The Phoenix and the Turtle'?
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Correct answer: B. William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's allegorical elegy on ideal love appeared in 1601 among the 'Poetical Essays' appended to Robert Chester's Love's Martyr.
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