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Born 1522 • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Died October 29, 1590 (aged 68) • Gouda • Netherlands
Notable Works “Comedie van Israël” • “De Wellevenskunste” • “De dolinghe van Ulyss” • “Liedekens”

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George Buchanan, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist after a portrait by Arnold Bronkhorst, 1581; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sadeq Hedayat.
Sadeq Hedayat
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George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
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Marc-Antoine de Muret
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Thomas May
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Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
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Hella S. Haasse
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Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
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Martinus Nijhoff
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Bredero, engraving by H. Goltzius, 1618
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
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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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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