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Born August 12, 1818 • Scotland
Died March 20, 1896 (aged 77)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
Margaret Atwood smiling at the camera, wearing a red scarf with butterfly patterns and a black top, in front of an orange background with inspirational words.
Margaret Atwood
Canadian author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Canadian poet
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Lisa Robertson
Canadian poet and essayist
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Anne Michaels
Canadian poet and novelist
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje
Canadian writer
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Sue Goyette
Canadian poet and novelist
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Susan Musgrave
American-born author
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
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William Dunbar
Scottish poet
Pratt, E.J.
E.J. Pratt
Canadian poet
Duncan Campbell Scott, 1943
Duncan Campbell Scott
Canadian author
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
Sir David Lyndsay
Scottish poet
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Jay Macpherson
Canadian poet
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Al Purdy
Canadian author
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Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Canadian poet

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