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Born	March 28, 1884 • Leucas • Greece
Died	June 19, 1951 (aged 67) • Athens • Greece
Notable Works	“Alafroískïotos” • “Delphikos lógos” • “Prologos sti zoi”

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Jean Moréas

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Yannis Ritsos

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Thespis

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Yórgos Theotokás

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Iancu Văcărescu

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Farkas Bolyai

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William Shakespeare

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Samuel Johnson

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Jean Racine

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D.H. Lawrence

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Victor Hugo

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Aleksandr Pushkin

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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