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Born November 11, 1835 • Iceland
Died December 18, 1920 (aged 85) • Akureyri • Iceland
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Ernest F. Fenollosa
American orientalist and art critic
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
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Eric Bentley
American critic, translator, and stage director
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
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Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
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Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Hovey, Richard
Richard Hovey
American writer
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
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Gudbrandur Thorláksson
Icelandic bishop and scholar
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Steingrímur Thorsteinsson
Icelandic poet
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Iancu Văcărescu
Romanian author
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Marlowe or not Marlowe?
Christopher Marlowe
English writer
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
West Indian poet
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
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Allen Curnow
New Zealand author

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