Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Poems

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Leigh Hunt, English Poet
(1784-1859)

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Name: James Henry Leigh Hunt
Known as: Leigh Hunt
Birth: October 19, 1784, Southgate, London, UK
Death: August 28, 1859, Putney, London, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English critic, essayist, and poet whose popular poems include "Jenny kiss'd Me," "Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel," and "A Night-Rain in Summer"
Included in lists (What's This?): HC, GC

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Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Poet
(1889-1957)

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Name: Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, or, more simply, Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga
Known as: Gabriela Mistral
Birth: April 7, 1889, Vicuña, Chile
Death: January 10, 1957, Hempstead, New York, USA
Language: Spanish
Who she was: Chilean poet, educator, and humanist known for Sonnets of Death, Despair, Tenderness, and Harvesting.Nobel Prize in Literature (1945)
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Richard Brautigan, American Writer
(1935-1984)

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Name: Richard Brautigan
Birth: January 30, 1935, Tacoma, Washington, USA
Death: ca. September 16, 1984, Bolinas, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American novelist, poet, and short story writer whose work often uses black comedy, parody, and satire. Best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar.
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Jonas Lie, Norwegian Writer
(1833-1908)

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Name: Jonas Lie
Birth: November 6, 1833, Hokksund, Eiker, Norway
Death: July 5, 1908, Stavern, Larvik, Norway
Language: Norwegian
Who he was: Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright who wrote The Family at Gilje and One of Life’s Slaves; with Ibsen, Bjørnson, and Kielland, one of Norway's "Four Greats."
Included in lists (What's This?): HCF

Gottfried Keller, Swiss Author
(1819-1890)

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Name: Gottfried Keller
Birth: July 19, 1819, Zürich, Switzerland
Death: July 15, 1890, Zürich, Switzerland
Language: German
Who he was: Swiss poet and novelist who wrote (in German) Green Henry and The Banner of the Upright Seven
Included in lists (What's This?): HCF, Bloom

Sara Teasdale, American Poet
(1884-1933)

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Name: Sara Teasdale
Also known as: Sara Teasdale Filsinger (after her marriage in 1914)
Birth: August 8, 1884, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Death: January 29, 1933, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American poet known for Flame and Shadow; Love Songs; Pulitzer: Special Citation (Letters, 1918)

Theodor Fontane, German Novelist and Poet
(1819-1898)

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Name: Theodor Fontane
Birth: December 30, 1819, Neuruppin, Germany
Death: September 20, 1898, Berlin, Germany
Language: German
Who he was: German novelist and poet best remembered for his novels Trials and Tribulations, Frau Jenny Treibel, and Effi Briest
Included in lists (What's This?): HCF, Bloom

Alphonse Daudet, French Novelist
(1840-1897)

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Name: Alphonse Daudet
Birth: May 13, 1840, Nîmes, France
Death: December 16, 1897, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet best known for short stories, including those in Letters From My Windmill; the boffo novel Fromont Junior and Risler Senior; and the Tarscon novels, including Tartarin of Tarascon
Included in lists (What's This?): HCF

Alfred de Musset, French Writer
(1810-1857)

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Name: Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay
Known as: Alfred de Musset
Birth: December 11, 1810, Paris, France
Death: May 2, 1857, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French dramatist, poet, and novelist who wrote The Story of a White Blackbird and The Confession of a Child of the Century
Included in lists (What's This?): HCF, Bloom

Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian Poet and Playwright
(1930-2017)

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Name: Derek Walcott
Birth: January 23, 1930, Castries, Saint Lucia
Death: March 17, 2017, Gros Islet Quarter, Saint Lucia
Language: English
Who he was: Saint Lucian poet and playwright known for epic poem Omeros and play Dream on Monkey Mountain
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

C. P. Cavafy, Egyptian Greek Poet and Journalist
(1863-1933)

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Name: Constantine Peter Cavafy
Known as: C. P. Cavafy
Birth: April 29, 1863, Alexandria, Egypt
Death: April 29, 1933, Alexandria, Egypt
Language: Greek
Who he was: Egyptian Greek poet and journalist best known for Ithaca
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Ford Madox Ford, English Writer
(1873-1939)

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Name: Ford Hermann Hueffer
Known as: Ford Madox Ford
Birth: December 17, 1873, Merton, UK
Death: June 26, 1939, Deauville, France
Language: English
Who he was: English novelist, poet, critic and editor known for his novels The Good Soldier; Parade's End (tetralogy); The Fifth Queen (trilogy)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

André Breton, French writer and poet
(1896-1966)

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Name: André Breton
Birth: February 19, 1896, Tinchebray, Tinchebray-Bocage, France
Death: September 28, 1966, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French writer and poet; Surrealist Manifesto; poems
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Jean Genet, French Writer
(1910-1986)

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Name: Jean Genet
Birth: December 19, 1910, Paris, France
Death: April 15, 1986, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist; novels Our Lady of the Flowers, The Thief's Journal; play The Balcony
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Randall Jarrell, American Poet
(1914-1965)

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Name: Randall Jarrell
Birth: May 6, 1914, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Death: October 14, 1965, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist remembered for The Woman at the Washington Zoo, The Lost World, Pictures from an Institution, and other poems. US Poet Laureate (1956-1958).
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

May Swenson, American Poet
(1913-1989)

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Name: Anna Thilda May Swenson
Known as: May Swenson
Birth: May 28, 1913, Logan, Utah, USA
Death: December 4, 1989, Bethany Beach, Delaware, USA
Language: English, Swedish
Who she was: American poet and playwright known for poetry collections New & Selected Things Taking Place; In Other Words
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Coventry Patmore, English Poet
(1823-1896)

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Name: Coventry Patmore
Birth: July 23, 1823, Woodford, London, UK
Death: November 26, 1896, Lymington, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English poet and critic who wrote The Unknown Eros and The Angel in the House
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican Religious Poet
(1651-1695)

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Name: Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana
Known as: Juana Inés de la Cruz
Birth: November 12, 1651, Tepetlixpa, Mexico
Death: April 17, 1695, Mexico City, Mexico
Languages: Spanish, Latin
Who she was: Mexican nun under colonial Spain who wrote poetry and dramas
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

George Chapman, English Author
(1559-1634)

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Name: George Chapman
Birth: Unknown date, 1559, Hitchin, UK
Death: May 12, 1634, London, UK
Languages: English, Greek
Who he was: English dramatist, translator, and poet best remembered for translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Frédéric Mistral, French Poet
(1830-1914)

Just the Facts:

Name: Frédéric Mistral
Birth: September 8, 1830, Provence, France
Death: March 25, 1914, Maillane, France
Language: French
Who he was: French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Epic Provencal poem Mirèio (Mireille). Nobel Prize in Literature (1904).

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