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Also Known As	Marius Servius Honoratus • Maurus Servius Honoratus
Flourished	c.301 - c.400
Subjects Of Study	Virgil

Aelius Donatus

Roman grammarian

Fabius Planciades Fulgentius

Latin author

Robert Fitzgerald

American poet

Quintilian

Roman rhetorician

Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus

Roman scholar

A. Bartlett Giamatti

American baseball commissioner

Afrânio Coutinho

Brazilian writer and literary critic

Mary Novello Clarke

English author

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

Samuel Johnson

English author

Virginia Woolf

British writer

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

Alexander Pope

English author

Paul de Man

American literary critic

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Edward Gibbon

British historian

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