Andreas Gryphius: Quick Facts

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Born	October 2, 1616 • Głogów • Poland
Died	July 16, 1664 (aged 47) • Głogów • Poland
Notable Works	“Cardenio und Celinde” • “Carolus Stuardus” • “Catharina von Georgien” • “Die geliebte Dornrose” • “Leo Armenius” • “Papinianus”

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Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.

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Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

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

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.

Friedrich Schiller

German writer

German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.

Heinrich von Kleist

German author

Platen, August, Graf von

August, Graf von Platen

German writer

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Karl Gutzkow

German writer

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Heinrich Julius

duke of Brunswick

Sachs, Hans

Hans Sachs

German poet and composer

Gerstenberg, engraving

Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg

German writer

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Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin

German philologist

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Jakob Ayrer

German dramatist

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English author

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Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

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Pietro Aretino

Italian author

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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

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Jean de La Taille

French author

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

A Study of Poetry

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:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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