Sir John Harington

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Born	1561
Died	November 20, 1612 (aged 51) • England

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English artist

Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke

English translator

Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet

English poet and translator

Terence Tiller

British writer

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Eugenio Montale

Italian author

John Ciardi

American poet and critic

Martin Opitz

German poet

Robert Pinsky

American poet and critic

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet

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Paolo Antonio Rolli

Italian author

Attilio Bertolucci

Italian poet, literary critic and translator

Melchiorre Cesarotti

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Mihály Babits

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Alexander Pope

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Anthony Munday

English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator

Eric Bentley

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George Chapman

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Sidney Godolphin

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