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Greek critic and grammarian

Alexander Pope

English author

Apollonius of Rhodes

Greek poet

Zenodotus Of Ephesus

Greek scholar

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Samuel Johnson

English author

Robert Burns

Scottish poet

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

Théophile Gautier

French author

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

Carol Ann Duffy

British poet

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Fujiwara Sadaie

Japanese poet

Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian

André Breton

French poet

Martin Opitz

German poet