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Born	August 3, 1882 • Pardubice • Austria-Hungary
Died	April 12, 1945 (aged 62) • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Subjects Of Study	phonology • synchronic linguistics • English language

Samuel Johnson

English author

Alexander Pope

English author

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Elio Vittorini

Italian author

Martin Opitz

German poet

Sir Edmund Gosse

British critic and writer

Frank O’Connor

Irish author

Andrew Lang

British scholar

William Barnes

English poet

Edwin Muir

Scottish writer

Mary Novello Clarke

English author

Virginia Woolf

British writer

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Edward Gibbon

British historian