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Also Known As Antioch Dmitrievich Cantemir
Born September 21, 1708 • Turkey
Died April 11, 1744 (aged 35) • Paris • France
Notable Works “A Plurality of Worlds”
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Merezhkovsky
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Russian author
Joseph Brodsky, 1988
Joseph Brodsky
American poet
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Velimir Vladimirovich Khlebnikov
Russian poet
Ratushinskaya, Irina Georgiyevna
Irina Georgiyevna Ratushinskaya
Russian poet, essayist and dissident
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Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky
Russian writer
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
Fet, portrait by Ilya Repin
Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet
Russian author
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Margarita Iosifovna Aliger
Russian writer, and Soviet propagandist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Canadian poet
Kenneth Rexroth and his daughter
Kenneth Rexroth
American poet and painter
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Lu Xun
Chinese writer
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Fløgstad, Kjartan
Kjartan Fløgstad
Norwegian writer
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
Kazantzákis, Níkos
Níkos Kazantzákis
Greek writer

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