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162 famous people found

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  Ina COOLBRITH

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

  1841 - 1928
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  Marie HUOT

  French poet, writer, feminist and animal rights activist

  1846 - 1930
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  Albert GLATIGNY

  French poet, comedian and playwright

  1839 - 1873
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  Antonin ROQUES

  French poet

  1810 - 1881
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  Vittorio ALFIERI

  Italian dramatist and poet

  1749 - 1803
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  Wilhelm BUSCH

  German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter

  1832 - 1908
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  Henry David THOREAU

  American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist

  1817 - 1862
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  John Greenleaf WHITTIER

  Influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States

  1807 - 1892
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  Alfred TENNYSON

  Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign

  1809 - 1892
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  Samuel Cutler WARD

  American poet, author, and gourmet

  1814 - 1884
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  Erasmus DARWIN

  English physician

  1731 - 1802
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  Walt WHITMAN

  American poet, essayist and journalist

  1819 - 1892
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  Teófilo BRAGA

  Portuguese writer, playwright, politician, the second elected President of the First Portuguese Republic

  1843 - 1924
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  NOVALIS

  Poet, an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism

  1772 - 1801
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  Gérard DE NERVAL

  French poet, essayist and translator

  1808 - 1855
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  Adélaïde-Louise d'Eckmühl de Blocqueville

  French woman of letters and poet

  1815 - 1892
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  Gustave Rivet

  French poet

  1848 - 1936
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  Édouard Pailleron

  French poet and dramatist

  1829 - 1899
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  Camille Doucet

  French poet and playwright

  1812 - 1895
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  Edmond Texier

  French journalist, poet and novelist

  1815 - 1887