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Bürger, Gottfried August
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A Study of Poetry
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Born December 31, 1747 • Germany
Died June 8, 1794 (aged 46) • Göttingen • Germany
Notable Works “Lenore”

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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
Wilhelm Müller
German poet
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
Hviezdoslav
Hviezdoslav
Slovak poet
Salomon Gessner
Swiss writer and artist
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Johann Heinrich Voss, lithograph.
Johann Heinrich Voss
German poet
Christian Morgenstern
German poet
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Knebel, drawing by Johann Schmeller, 1824
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
German poet
Robert Bly
American author
Eric Bentley
American critic, translator, and stage director
David Antin
American poet and critic
Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Pencho Petkov Slaveykov
Bulgarian author
Edwin Muir
Scottish writer

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