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Born c.1540
Died February 1594 • London • England
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet
English poet and translator
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
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Nicholas Udall
English writer
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
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Sidney Godolphin
English poet
George Sandys, engraving after a portrait by Cornelius Janssen; frontispiece to Relation of a Journey (1615)
George Sandys
English poet and traveler
Elizabeth Carter, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Elizabeth Carter
British author
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Thomas May
English scholar
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
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Sir Richard Baker
British author
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Terence Tiller
British writer
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Thomas Tickell
English writer
Broome, engraving by J.-M. Delattre after a portrait by D. Heins, 18th century
William Broome
British scholar and poet
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Jasper Heywood
English priest and poet
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John Langhorne
English poet
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Elio Vittorini
Italian author