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George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Kenneth Burke

American critic

Masamune Hakuchō

Japanese author

Virginia Woolf

British writer

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

Toni Morrison

American author

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Wyndham Lewis

British artist and writer

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

François Mauriac

French author

J.M. Coetzee

South African author

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat