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Born October 7, 1794 • Dessau • Germany
Died September 30, 1827 (aged 32) • Dessau • Germany
Notable Works “Die Winterreise” • “Die schöne Müllerin” • “Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten” • “Lieder der Griechen”
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Bürger, Gottfried August
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
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Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
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Eric Bentley
American critic, translator, and stage director
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
Hviezdoslav
Hviezdoslav
Slovak poet
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Edwin Muir
Scottish writer
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Salomon Gessner
Swiss writer and artist
Johann Heinrich Voss, lithograph.
Johann Heinrich Voss
German poet
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Christian Morgenstern
German poet
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Knebel, drawing by Johann Schmeller, 1824
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
German poet
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
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Robert Bly
American author
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author

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