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Also Known As	Prapañcha
Flourished	c.1301 - c.1400

Antal

Indian poet

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Norwegian author

John Banim

Irish author

Farkas Bolyai

Hungarian mathematician and writer

Louise Bennett-Coverley

Jamaican folklorist, poet, and radio and television personality

Shamsur Rahman

Bengali poet, journalist, and human rights advocate

Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

William Shakespeare

English author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Samuel Johnson

English author

Michelangelo

Italian artist

William Blake

English engraver, artist, and poet

Homer

Greek poet

Jean Racine

French dramatist

St. Thomas Aquinas

Italian Christian theologian and philosopher

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Horace

Roman poet

James Joyce

Irish author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Cicero

Roman statesman, scholar, and writer