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Also Known As Pavol Országh
Born February 2, 1849 • Czechoslovakia
Died November 8, 1921 (aged 72) • Czechoslovakia
Notable Works “Ežo Vlkolinský” • “Hájnikova žena” • “Krvavé sonety”

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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
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Robert Bly
American author
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Bürger, Gottfried August
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
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Wilhelm Müller
German poet
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Edwin Muir
Scottish writer
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Salomon Gessner
Swiss writer and artist
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Louise Bogan, 1967
Louise Bogan
American poet and literary critic
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
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Eric Bentley
American critic, translator, and stage director

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