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Born August 15, 1863 • Pisa • Italy
Died December 9, 1943 (aged 80) • Geneva • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study Rhaetian dialects
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Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
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
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English 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
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
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Théophile Gautier
French author
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
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Fujiwara Sadaie
Japanese poet
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
André Breton
André Breton
French poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Jacob Glatstein
American author and literary critic

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