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Born April 28, 1874 • Czechoslovakia
Died June 12, 1936 (aged 62) • Vienna • Austria
Notable Works “Die letzten Tage der Menschheit”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
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Jeannette Leonard Gilder
American editor and writer
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
German writer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
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Ilse Aichinger
Austrian author
Bahr, 1916
Hermann Bahr
Austrian writer
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Ferdinand Kürnberger
Austrian writer
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
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John Marston
British dramatist
Merezhkovsky
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Russian author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
William Carlos Williams
American poet
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Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic

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