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Born December 12, 1860 • Poland
Died August 1, 1926 (aged 65) • Poland
Notable Works “Ginącemu światu” • “Krzak dzikiej róży”
Movement / Style Young Poland movement
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
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Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
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Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
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Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
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Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
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Nahum Tate
English writer
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Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Charles Clarke, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Cowden Clarke
English editor and critic
Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
Charles Lamb
British author
Harley Granville-Barker, detail of an oil painting by Jacques-Emile Blanche, 1930; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Harley Granville-Barker
British author and producer
Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh
king of Siam
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Tsubouchi Shōyō
Japanese author
Mary Ann Lamb, detail of an oil painting by Francis Stephen Cary, 1834; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Mary Ann Lamb
British author
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Otto Ludwig
German writer
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Johann Elias Schlegel
German author and critic

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