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  Alexander PUSHKIN

  Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era

  1799 - 1837
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  BEAUMARCHAIS

  French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)

  1732 - 1799
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  Lord Byron

  English romantic poet and peer

  1788 - 1824
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  Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE

  German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath

  1749 - 1832
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  André CHÉNIER

  French poet

  1762 - 1794
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  Walter SCOTT

  Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

  1771 - 1832
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  Alphonse DE LAMARTINE

  French writer, poet and politician

  1790 - 1869
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  Heinrich HEINE

  Journalist, essayist, literary critic, and one of the most significant German romantic poets

  1797 - 1856
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  Miguel de CERVANTES

  Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

  1547 - 1616
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  Anne BRADSTREET

  English poet

  1612 - 1672
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  Jean RACINE

  French dramatist

  1639 - 1699
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  Jean de Garancières

  Medieval poet

  1372 - 1415
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  François-Joseph DE LAGRANGE-CHANCEL

  French dramatist and satirist

  1677 - 1758
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  Jan VAN DER NOOT

  Netherlandish writer who is regarded as the first Renaissance poet in Dutch

  1539 - 1595
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  Pontus DE TYARD

  French poet and priest, a member of "La Pléiade"

  1521 - 1605
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  Jean REBOUL

  French poet

  1796 - 1864
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  John MILTON

  English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell

  1608 - 1674
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  Vittorio ALFIERI

  Italian dramatist and poet

  1749 - 1803
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  Walter RALEIGH

  English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer

  1552 - 1618
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  Pedro CALDERóN DE LA BARCA

  Dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age

  1600 - 1681