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Born February 18, 1559 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died July 1, 1614 (aged 55) • London • England
Subjects Of Study Athenaeus
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
Paul Shorey
American scholar
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Hughes, Ted
Ted Hughes
British poet
Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Bentley
British scholar
Amyot, Jacques
Jacques Amyot
French scholar
Jowett, Benjamin
Benjamin Jowett
English scholar
Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
Anne Ridler
British writer
Richard Porson
English scholar
Anne Dacier
French scholar and translator
Florent Chrestien
French author
Sir Edward Howard Marsh
British scholar
Jacques Borel
French author
Thomas Tickell
English writer
John Langhorne
English poet
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist

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