Quintus Ennius

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Born	239 BCE • Italy
Died	169 BCE
Notable Works	“Annales” • “Iphigenia at Aulis” • “Medea” • “Satires”

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

Gnaeus Naevius

Roman writer

Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch writer

Marc-Antoine de Muret

French author

Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov

Russian writer

Seneca

Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]

Marcus Pacuvius

Roman dramatist

Lucius Accius

Roman poet

William Shakespeare

English author

Jean Racine

French dramatist

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish author

Friedrich Schiller

German writer

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

John Dryden

British author

Federico García Lorca

Spanish writer

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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