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Li Bai ? ? Suyab, Kyrgyzstan 701 - 762 | Ghiyath ad-Din Abu'l-Fath 'Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam Nishapuri ? ? Nishapur, Razavi Khorasan, Iran 1048(05/18) - 1131(12/04) | Durante degli Alighieri 39 ? Florence, IT 1265(05) - 1321(09/09) | Francesco Petrarca 39 ? Arezzo, Tuscany, IT 1304(07/20) - 1374(07/19) | Giovanni Boccaccio 39 ? Certaldo, Tuscany, IT 1313 - 1375(12/21) |
Willielmi de Langlond 44 ? Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, England, GB 1332 - 1386 | Geoffrey Chaucer 44 ? London, England, GB 1343 - 1400(10/25) | Thomas Malory 44 ? Newbold Revel, Warwickshire, England, GB 1405 - 1471(03/14) | François de Montcorbier 33 ? ?, FR 1431 - 1464 | Ludovico Ariosto 39 ? Reggio Emilia, IT 1474(09/08) - 1533(07/06) |
Thomas More 44 ? Milk Street, City of London, London, England, GB 1478(02/07) - 1535(07/06) | François Rabelais 33 ? Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, FR 1494 - 1553(04/09) | Luís Vaz de Camões ? ? Coimbra, Portugal 1524 - 1580(06/10) | Pierre de Ronsard 33 ? Manoir de la Possonnière, Couture-sur-Loir, Loir-et-Cher, FR 1524(09/11) - 1585(12/28) | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 33 ? Château de Montaigne, Dordogne, FR 1533(02/28) - 1592(09/13) |
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 34 ? Alcalá de Henares 1547(09/29) - 1616(04/22) | Edmund Spenser 44 ? East Smithfield, London, England, GB 1553 - 1599(01/13) | Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio 34 ? Madrid, ES 1562(11/25) - 1635(08/27) | Christopher Marlowe 44 ? Canterbury, Kent, England, GB 1564(02) - 1593(05/30) | William Shakespeare 44 ? Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, GB 1564(04) - 1616(04/23) |
Benjamin Jonson 44 ? Westminster, London, England, GB 1572(06/11) - 1637(08/06) | John Donne 44 ? London, England, GB 1572 - 1631(03/31) | Robert Herrick 44 ? Cheapside, London, GB 1591(08) - 1674(10) | George Herbert 44W ? Montgomery, Wales, GB 1593(04/03) - 1633(03/01) | Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño 34 ? Madrid, ES 1600(01/17) - 1681(05/25) |
Pierre Corneille 33 ? Rouen, FR 1606(06/06) - 1684(10/01) | John Milton 44 ? Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England, GB 1608(12/09) - 1674(11/08) | Andrew Marvell 44 ? Winestead-in-Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, GB 1621(03/31) - 1678(08/16) | Jean de La Fontaine 33 ? Château-Thierry, Champagne, FR 1621(07/08) - 1695(04/13) | Jean-Baptiste Poquelin 33 ? Paris, FR 1622(01) - 1673(02/17) |
Charles Perrault 33 ? Paris, FR 1628(01/12) - 1703(05/16) | John Bunyan 44 ? Bunyan's End, Elstow, Bedfordshire, England, GB 1628(11/28) - 1688(08/31) | John Dryden 44 ? village rectory, Aldwincle, Thrapston, Northamptonshire, England, GB 1631(08/09) - 1700(05/01) | Samuel Pepys 44 ? Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London, England, GB 1633(02/23) - 1703(05/26) | Jean-Baptiste Racine 33 ? La Ferté-Milon, FR 1639(12/22) - 1699(04/21) |
Daniel Foe 44 ? St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, England, GB 1960 - 1731(04/24) | Jonathan Swift ? ? Dublin, IE 1667(11/30) - 1745(10/19) | Alain-René Lesage 33 ? Sarzeau, Morbihan, Brittany, FR 1668(05/06) - 1747(11/17) | Richard Steele ? ? Dublin, IE 1672(03) - 1729(09/01) | Alexander Pope 44 ? Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, England, GB 1688(05/22) - 1744(05/30) |
Samuel Richardson 44 ? Mackworth, Derbyshire, England, GB 1689(08/19) - 1761(07/04) | François-Marie Arouet 33 ? Paris, FR 1694(11/21) - 1778(05/30) | Henry Fielding 44 ? Sharpham, Glastonbury, Somerset, England, GB 1707(04/22) - 1754(10/08) | Samuel Johnson 44 ? Breadmarket Street at Market Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, GB 1709(09/18) - 1784(12/13) | Laurence Sterne ? ? Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland 1713(11/24) - 1768(03/18) |
Jupiter Hammon 1 ? Lloyd Manor, Lloyd Harbor, Suffolk County, NY 1711(10/17) - 1805 | Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt 39 ? Venice, IT 1725(04/02) - 1798(06/04) | Oliver Goldsmith ? ? Smith Hill House, Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland> 1730(11/10) - 1774(04/04) | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 49 ? Kamenz, Saxony, DE 1729(01/22) - 1781(02/15) | James Boswell 44S ? Blair's Land, Edinburgh, Scotland, GB 1740(10/29) - 1795(05/19) |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 49 ? Frankfurt, DE 1749(08/28) - 1832(03/22) | Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ? ? Dorset Street, Dublin, Ireland 1751(10/30) - 1816(07/07) | Noah Webster 1 06101? West Hartford, CT 1758(10/16) - 1843(05/28) | Robert Burns 44S ? Ayrshire, Scotland, GB 1759(01/25) - 1796(07/21) | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 49 ? Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, DE 1759(11/10) - 1805(05/09) |
William Wordsworth 44 ? Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, GB 1770(04/07) - 1850(04/23) | Walter Scott 44S ? Edinburgh, Scotland, GB 1771(08/15) - 1832(09/21) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge 44 ? Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England, GB 1772(10/21) - 1834(07/25) | Charles Lamb 44 ? Inner Temple, London, England, GB 1775(02/10) - 1834(12/27) | Clement Clarke Moore 1 10001? New York, NY 1779(07/15) - 1863(07/10) |
Francis Scott Key 1 ?? Terra Rubra, Keysville, MD 1779(08/01) - 1843(01/11) | Washington Irving 1 10001? New York, NY 1783(04/03) - 1859(11/28) | Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm 49 ? Hanau, Hesse-Kassel, DE 1785(01/04) - 1863(09/20) | Wilhelm Carl Grimm 49 ? Hanau, Hesse-Kassel, DE 1786(02/24) - 1859(12/16) | George Gordon Byron 44 ? London, England, GB 1788(01/22) - 1824(04/19) |
James Fenimore Cooper 1 08016 Burlington, NJ 1789(09/15) - 1851(09/14) | Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine 33 ? Mâcon, Burgundy, FR 1790(10/21) - 1869(02/28) | Percy Bysshe Shelley 44 ? Field Place, Broadbridge Heath, Horsham, West Sussex, England, GB 1792(08/04) - 1822(07/08) | William Cullen Bryant 1 01026 Cummington, MA 1794(11/03) - 1878(06/12) | John Keats 44 ? Moorgate, London, England, GB 1795(10/31) - 1821(02/23) |
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine 49 ? Düsseldorf, DE 1797(12/13) - 1856(02/17) | Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 7 ? Moscow, Russia, SU 1799(06/06) - 1837(02/10) | Honoré de Balzac 33 ? Tours, FR 1799(05/20) - 1850(08/18) | Victor Marie Hugo 33 ? Besançon, FR 1802(02/26) - 1885(05/22) | Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie 33 ? Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, FR 1802(07/24) - 1870(12/05) |
Prosper Mérimée 33 ? Paris, FR 1803(09/28) - 1870(09/23) | Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 02205? Boston, MA 1803(05/25) - 1882(04/27) | Nathaniel Hathorne 1 01970? Salem, MA 1804(07/04) - 1864(05/19) | Hans Christian Andersen ? ? Odense, Denmark 1805(04/02) - 1875(08/04) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1 04101? Portland, ME 1807(02/27) - 1882(03/24) |
John Greenleaf Whittier 1 01830? Haverhill, MA 1807(12/17) - 1892(09/07) | Edgar Poe 1 02205? Boston, MA 1809(01/19) - 1849(10/07) | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 380 ? Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava Oblast, UA 1809(03/31) - 1852(03/04) | Alfred Tennyson 44 ? Somersby, Lincolnshire, England, GB 1809(08/09) - 1892(10/06) | Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 02139? Cambridge, MA 1809(08/29) - 1894(10/07) |
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay 33 ? Paris, FR 1810(12/11) - 1857(05/02) | William Makepeace Thackeray ? ? Kolkata, IN 1811(07/18) - 1863(12/24) | Charles John Huffam Dickens 44 ? Landport, Portsea Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, GB 1812(02/07) - 1870(06/09) | Robert Browning 44 ? Camberwell, London, England, GB 1812(05/07) - 1889(12/12) | Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 7 ? Moscow, Russia, SU 1814(10/15) - 1841(07/27) |
William Wells Brown 1 ? Lexington, KY 1814(11/06) - 1884(11/06) | Anthony Trollope 44 ? London, England, GB 1815(04/24) - 1882(12/06) | Patrick Branwell Brontë 44 ? Thornton, Yorkshire, England, GB 1817(06/26) - 1848(09/24) | Henry David Thoreau 1 01742 Concord, MA 1817(07/12) - 1862(05/06) | Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 7 ? Oryol, Russia, SU 1818(11/09) - 1883(09/03) |
John Ruskin 44 ? 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, London, England, GB 1819(02/08) - 1900(01/20) | James Russell Lowell 1 ? Cambridge, MA 1819(02/22) - 1891(08/12) | Walter Whitman 1 11743 West Hills, Huntingon, NY 1819(05/31) - 1892(03/26) | Herman Melville 1 10001? New York, NY 1819(08/01) - 1891(09/28) | Charles Pierre Baudelaire 33 ? Paris, FR 1821(04/09) - 1867(08/31) |
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 7 ? Moscow, Russia, SU 1821(11/11) - 1881(02/09) | Gustave Flaubert 33 ? Rouen, FR 1821(12/21) - 1880(05/08) | Matthew Arnold 44 ? Laleham, Middlesex, England, GB 1822(12/24) - 1888(04/15) | Edward Everett Hale 1 02205? Boston, MA 1822(04/03) - 1909(06/10) | William Wilkie Collins 44 ? 11 New Cavendish Street, Marylebone, London, GB 1824(01/08) - 1889(09/23) |
Jules Gabriel Verne 33 ? Nantes, FR 1828(02/08) - 1905(03/24) | George Meredith 44 ? Portsmouth, England, GB 1828(02/12) - 1909(05/18) | Henrik Johan Ibsen ? ? Skien, Telemark County, NO 1828(03/20) - 1906(05/23) | Dante Gabriel Rossetti 44 ? London, England, GB 1828(05/12) - 1882(04/09) | Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 7 ? Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russia, SU 1828(09/09) - 1910(11/20) |
Horatio Alger 1 02150 Chelsea, MA 1832(01/13) - 1899(07/18) | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 44 ? Daresbury, Cheshire, England, GB 1832(01/27) - 1898(01/14) | Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1 65283 Florida, MO 1835(11/30) - 1910(04/21) | Francis Bret Harte 1 ? Albany, NY 1836(08/25) - 1902(05/06) | William Dean Howells 1 ? Martins Ferry, OH 1937(03/01) - 1920(05/11) |
Algernon Charles Swinburne 44 ? 7 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, England, GB 1837(04/05) 1909(04/10) | Henry Brooks Adams 1 02205? Boston, MA 1838(02/16) - 1918(03/28) | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 55 ? Rio de Janeiro, BR 1839(06/21) - 1908(09/29) | Émile François Zola 33 ? Paris, FR 1840(04/02) - 1902(09/29) | Thomas Hardy 44 ? Upper Bockhampton, Stinsford, Dorchester, Dorset, England, GB 1840(06/02) - 1928(01/11) |
Stéphane Mallarmé 33 ? Paris, FR 1842(03/18) - 1898(09/09) | Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 1 ? Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, OH 1842(06/24) - 1913(12/26) | Henry James 1 10001? New York, NY 1843(04/15) - 1916(02/28) | Paul-Marie Verlaine 33 ? Metz, FR 1844(03/30) - 1896(01/08) | François-Anatole Thibault 1 ? Paris, FR 1844(04/16) - 1924(10/12) |
Gerard Manley Hopkins 44 ? Stratford, Essex, London, GB 1844(07/28) - 1889(06/08) | Abraham Stoker ? ? 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland 1847(11/08) - 1912(04/20) | Joel Chandler Harris 1 ? Eatonton, GA 1848(12/09) - 1908(07/03) | Johan August Strindberg ? ? Stockholm, Sweden 1849(01/22) - 1889(06/08) | James Whitcomb Riley 1 46140 Greenfield, IN 1849(10/07) - 1916(07/22) |
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