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Alfred Lord Tennyson

United Kingdom

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Born on 6 August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, and died on 6 October 1892 in Aidworth, Surrey, Alfred Tennyson was an iconic figure in Victorian England. In 1850, following the death of William Wordsworth, he was named poet laureate. Thanks in particular to his long poem * In Memoriam A.H.H. * ...

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Federico García Lorca

Spanish

Federico García Lorca

Born on 5 June 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, in the province of Granada, Spain, and died on 19 August...
Maurice Maeterlinck

Belgium

Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck (by his real name Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck), born on 29 August 1862 in Ghent (Belgium) and died on 6 May 1949 in...
Robert Duncan

USA

Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan was an American poet, essayist, dramatist, born in 7 January 1919, in Oakland, California and died in 3 February 1988, in San Francisco....

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