Gnaeus Naevius: Quick Facts

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Born	c.270 BCE • Capua • Italy
Died	c.200 BCE • Utica • Tunisia
Notable Works	“Bellum Poenicum” • “Tarentilla”

Quintus Ennius

Roman author

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

William Shakespeare

English author

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

John Dryden

British author

Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch writer

Pietro Aretino

Italian author

Francisco de Sá de Miranda

Portuguese author

Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sir John Suckling

English poet and dramatist

Andreas Gryphius

German author

Jean de La Taille

French author

Népomucène Lemercier

French author

James Shirley

English playwright

Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin

German philologist

Marc-Antoine de Muret

French author

Jacques Grévin

French author

Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov

Russian writer

Thomas Nabbes

English writer

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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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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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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