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Born April 23, 1918 • Galt • Canada
Died July 31, 2007 (aged 89) • Toronto • Canada
Notable Works “Sunblue” • “The Dumbfounding” • “Winter Sun”
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
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Ahmed Ali
Pakistani writer
Margaret Atwood smiling at the camera, wearing a red scarf with butterfly patterns and a black top, in front of an orange background with inspirational words.
Margaret Atwood
Canadian author
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Canadian poet
Duncan Campbell Scott, 1943
Duncan Campbell Scott
Canadian author
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Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Canadian poet
Isabella Valancy Crawford, lithograph
Isabella Valancy Crawford
Canadian poet
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Ralph Barker Gustafson
Canadian poet
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James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
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Robert Bly
American author
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Jens Peter Jacobsen, detail of an oil painting by E. Josephson, 1879; in the Nationalhistoriske Museum at Frederiksborg, Denmark.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Danish author
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Plomer
William Plomer
South African writer
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
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Paul Bowles
American composer, translator, and author
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer

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