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Also Known As Gregory of Narek
Born 951
Died 1003 (aged 52)
Notable Works “Commentary on the Song of Songs”
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bishop of Milan
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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William Augustus Muhlenberg
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Pamphile Lemay
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
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George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
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William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak
founder of Sikhism
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Early 20th century black and white portrait of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, seated and resting his face on his hand.
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Spanish writer
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian

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