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Bjarni Vigfússon Thórarensen: Quick Facts

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Born December 30, 1786 • Iceland
Died August 24, 1841 (aged 54) • Iceland
Notable Works “Eldgamla Ísafold”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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William Blake
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Lord Byron
British poet
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William Wordsworth
English author
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Victor Hugo
French writer
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
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John Keats
British poet
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Richard Strauss
German composer
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Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
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Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer

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