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Also Known As	Edward Wadie Said • Edward William Said
Born	November 1, 1935 • Jerusalem • Israel
Died	September 25, 2003 (aged 67) • New York City • New York
Notable Works	“Orientalism”
Subjects Of Study	literary criticism • literature • Asia • Middle East • culture • political science

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

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Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

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T.S. Eliot

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James Russell Lowell

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Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980

Czesław Miłosz

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Kenneth Burke

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Irving Howe

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W.C. Brownell

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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

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Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney

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Wole Soyinka, 2015

Wole Soyinka

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Octavio Paz.

Octavio Paz

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

François Mauriac

François Mauriac

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J.M. Coetzee

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