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Also Known As Dionysius Longinus • Pseudo-Longinus
Flourished c.1 - c.25
Subjects Of Study literature • sublime • rhetoric
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Didymus Chalkenteros
Greek scholar
Illustration shows a sketch of the ancient Greek writer Lucian, published in Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.
Lucian
Greek writer
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Caecilius of Calacte
Greek rhetorician
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Quintilian
Roman rhetorician
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Reyes, Alfonso
Alfonso Reyes
Mexican writer
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Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
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Corax
Greek writer
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
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
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
English author and statesman
portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
French-Swiss author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet

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