Bernhard ten Brink

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Born	January 12, 1841 • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Died	January 29, 1892 (aged 51) • Germany
Subjects Of Study	Geoffrey Chaucer

George Lyman Kittredge

American scholar and educator

Albert Verwey

Dutch poet

Willem Kloos

Dutch author

Daniël Heinsius

Dutch poet

Hendrik Marsman

Dutch poet and critic

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Samuel Johnson

English author

Alexander Pope

English author

Robert Burns

Scottish poet

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Stephen Greenblatt

American scholar

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

Théophile Gautier

French author

H.L. Mencken

American writer

Carol Ann Duffy

British poet

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

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