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Flourished	c.600 BCE - c.501 BCE • ancient Greece

Euripides

Euripides

Greek dramatist

Sophocles

Sophocles

Greek dramatist

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Aeschylus

Greek dramatist

Agathon

Agathon

Greek poet

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

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Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

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Ion of Chios

Greek poet

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Phrynichus

Greek comic poet

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Diphilus

Greek poet

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Phrynichus

Greek tragic poet

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Alexander Aetolus

Greek poet and scholar

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Choerilus

Athenian tragic poet

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English author

French dramatist Jean Racine

Jean Racine

French dramatist

Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish author

Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.

Friedrich Schiller

German writer

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Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

Early 20th century black and white portrait of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, seated and resting his face on his hand.

Federico García Lorca

Spanish writer

Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.

Ancient Greece

Portrait of Plato (ca. 428- ca. 348 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher.

An Odyssey of Grecian Literature

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines