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Born September 6, 1896 • Rome • Italy
Died March 23, 1982 (aged 85) • Rome • Italy
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
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Elio Vittorini
Italian author
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Mary Novello Clarke
English author
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Samuel Johnson
English author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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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
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Alexander Pope
English author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
English author and statesman
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Butler
English author [1835-1902]