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Also Known As	Herman Louis-Cesar Teirlinck
Born	February 24, 1879 • Belgium
Died	February 4, 1967 (aged 87) • Belgium

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Charles Van Lerberghe

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Ana Castillo

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Walter de la Mare

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Paul Willems

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Suzanne Lilar

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Pierre Mertens

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Hugo Claus

Belgian writer, director, and painter

Henry Bauchau

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Albrecht Rodenbach

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Miguel de Cervantes

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D.H. Lawrence

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Aleksandr Pushkin

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Ivan Turgenev

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James Joyce

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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:

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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