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Born April 1, 1730 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died March 2, 1788 (aged 57) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works “Der Tod Abels” • “Idyllen”
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Iancu Văcărescu
Romanian author
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Bürger, Gottfried August
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
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Wilhelm Müller
German poet
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Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
Hviezdoslav
Hviezdoslav
Slovak poet
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
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Robert Bly
American author
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
Sadeq Hedayat.
Sadeq Hedayat
Iranian author
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Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian author
Jens Peter Jacobsen, detail of an oil painting by E. Josephson, 1879; in the Nationalhistoriske Museum at Frederiksborg, Denmark.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Danish author

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