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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author

Mary Novello Clarke

English author

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

A. Bartlett Giamatti

American baseball commissioner

Afrânio Coutinho

Brazilian writer and literary critic

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

British writer

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

French author

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T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author

Paul de Man

American literary critic

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

British historian

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

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Ezra Pound

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Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

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