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Also Known As Abbé Delille
Born June 22, 1738 • France
Died May 1, 1813 (aged 74) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Georgics” • “Paradise Lost”

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Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier
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Charles Baudelaire
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Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of
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English translator
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Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet
English poet and translator
George Sandys, engraving after a portrait by Cornelius Janssen; frontispiece to Relation of a Journey (1615)
George Sandys
English poet and traveler
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Florent Chrestien
French author
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Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle
French poet
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
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André Dacier
French scholar and translator
William Caxton
William Caxton
English printer, translator, and publisher
Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
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Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
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İbrahim Şinasi
Turkish author
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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
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Sidney Godolphin
English poet

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