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820 English and Old English literature 830 Literatures of Germanic languages 840 Literatures of Romance languages 850 Italian, Romanian, Rhaeto-Romanic 860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures 870 Italic literatures, i.e., Latin 880 Hellenic literatures, i.e., Classical Greek 890 Literatures of other languages
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