Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov: Quick Facts

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Born	November 25, 1717 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died	October 12, 1777 (aged 59) • Moscow • Russia

John Dryden

British author

Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov

Russian writer

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky

Russian dramatist

William Shakespeare

English author

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Pierre Marivaux

French author

Quintus Ennius

Roman author

Pietro Aretino

Italian author

Francisco de Sá de Miranda

Portuguese author

Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sir John Suckling

English poet and dramatist

Andreas Gryphius

German author

Jean de La Taille

French author

Gnaeus Naevius

Roman writer

Jean-François Ducis

French dramatist

Népomucène Lemercier

French author

James Shirley

English playwright

Jacques Grévin

French author

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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