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Also Known As	Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
Born	December 26, 1803 • Estonia
Died	August 25, 1882 (aged 78) • Tartu • Estonia
Notable Works	“Kalevipoeg”

Quintus Ennius

Roman author

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Norwegian author

Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

Norwegian author

John Milton

English poet, pamphleteer, and historian

Homer

Greek poet

Virgil

Roman poet

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

Valmiki

Hindu sage

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Hesiod

Greek poet

Ferdowsī

Persian poet

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

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Shota Rustaveli

Georgian poet

Lucan

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Statius

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Peretz Markish

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Apollonius of Rhodes

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Silius Italicus

Roman poet

Lucius Livius Andronicus

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Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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