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  Alexander PUSHKIN

  Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era

  1799 - 1837
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  Lord Byron

  English romantic poet and peer

  1788 - 1824
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  Victor HUGO

  French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement

  1802 - 1885
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  Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE

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

  1749 - 1832
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  Fiodor Tiouttchev

  Russian poet and diplomat

  1803 - 1873
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  Paul VERLAINE

  French poet associated with the Symbolist movement

  1844 - 1896
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  Walter SCOTT

  Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

  1771 - 1832
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  Leconte de Lisle

  French poet

  1818 - 1894
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  Charles BAUDELAIRE

  French poet, critic, and translator

  1821 - 1867
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  Susan WALLACE

  American author and poet

  1830 - 1907
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  Julia WARD HOWE

  American abolitionist, social activist, poet, and the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"

  1819 - 1910
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  Emily DICKINSON

  American poet

  1830 - 1886
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  Émile AUGIER

  French dramatist

  1820 - 1889
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  SULLY PRUDHOMME

  French poet and essayist

  1839 - 1907
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  Paul DEROULEDE

  French author and politician

  1846 - 1914
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  Louis-Honoré FRECHETTE

  Canadian poet, politician, playwright, and short story writer

  1839 - 1908
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  Sidney Lanier

  American musician, poet and author

  1842 - 1881
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  Zygmunt Krasinski

  Polish poet

  1812 - 1859
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  Ambrose Bierce

  American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran

  1842
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  Ina COOLBRITH

  American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community

  1841 - 1928