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Also Known As Martin Opitz von Boberfeld
Born December 23, 1597 • Silesia
Died August 20, 1639 (aged 41) • Gdańsk • Poland
Notable Works “Arcadia” • “Argenis” • “Buch von der deutschen Poeterey”
Subjects Of Study prosody

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Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Alexander Pope
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Andrew Lang
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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
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Wilhelm Müller
German poet
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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
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Elio Vittorini
Italian author
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
American poet and critic
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William Painter
English author
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
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Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet
English poet and translator
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Florent Chrestien
French author
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Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
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Richmond Lattimore
American poet and translator
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Rex Warner
British writer

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