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Born March 31, 1844 • Selkirk • Scotland
Died July 20, 1912 (aged 68) • Scotland
Notable Works “World of Homer”
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Richmond Lattimore
American poet and translator
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Thomas Tickell
English writer
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
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Elio Vittorini
Italian author
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
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Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
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Rex Warner
British writer
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
Broome, engraving by J.-M. Delattre after a portrait by D. Heins, 18th century
William Broome
British scholar and poet
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John Langhorne
English poet
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Edwin Muir
Scottish writer
George Macdonald, engraving
George Macdonald
British author
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
English poet
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist

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