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Valentine,
Jean
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Valery,
Paul
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Valéry,
Paul
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Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (French pronunciation: ; October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.. French author and poet of the Symbolist school
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Vallejo,
Alfonso
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Alfonso Vallejo (born 1943, Santander) is a Spanish of Gipsy descentplaywright, poet, painter and neurologist. He has published 33 plays and 20 poetry books. Vallejo was awarded the Lope de Vega prize in 1976 for his play "El desgüace". "Ácido Sulfúrico" was the runner up prize in 1975. In 1978 he received the Internacional Tirso de Molina prize for his work A Tumba Abierta. The Royal Academia of Spain (Real Academia Española), in 1981, awarded Vallejo the Fastenrath de la Real Academia prize for "El cero transparente".. Spanish artist playwright poet painter and neurologist
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Vallejo,
Cesar
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Vallotton,
Jean-Pierre
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Jean-Pierre Vallotton is a French-speaking Swiss poet, writer and artist.. French speaking Swiss poet and writer
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van den Heuvel,
Cor
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Cor van den Heuvel (born March 6 1931) is an American haiku poet, editor, commentator and archivist.. American haiku poet editor commentator archivist
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van den Vondel,
Joost
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Joost van den Vondel (17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) was a Dutch writer and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are the ones from that period that are still most frequently performed, and his epic Joannes de Boetgezant (1662), on the life of John the Baptist, has been called the greatest Dutch epic.. Dutch playwright poet
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Van Doren,
Mark
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Van Duyn,
Mona
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Mona Jane Van Duyn (9 May 1921 – 2 December 2004) was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1992.. American poet; US Poet Laureate 1992–1993
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Varand,
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Varos,
Dimitris
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Dimitris Varos (gr. µt ) was born 1949 on the island of Chios. He is a modern Greek poet, journalist, and photographer.. modern Greek poet journalist and photographer
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Vaughan,
Henry
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. Welsh author physician and metaphysical poet
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Vazha-Pshavela,
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Vazirani,
Reetika
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Reetika Vazirani (1962-2003) was an American poet and educator. On July 16, 2003, Vazirani was housesitting in the Chevy Chase, Maryland home of novelist Howard Norman and his wife, the poet, Jane Shore. There, Vazirani took the life of her two-year-old son, Jehan, and then her own.. American poet and educator
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Vazov,
Ivan
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Ivan Minchov Vazov (Bulgarian: ) (June 27, 1850 - September 22, 1921) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright. He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria (then part of the Ottoman Empire).. Bulgarian poet novelist and playwright
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Veli Kanik,
Orhan
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Orhan Veli Kanik or Orhan Veli (13 April 1914, Istanbul – 14 November 1950, Istanbul) was a Turkish poet. Kanik who is the founder of Garip Movement together with Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet has moved to the poetic language, utterance of man-in-the street by purposing rootedly to change the old structure in Turkish poetry. The poet made fit many works in the story, the essay, the article and the translation field, as well as his poetries into his 36 yearly life.. Turkish poet; a founder of the Garip Movement
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Vemana,
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Vendler,
Helen
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Helen Hennessy Vendler (born April 30, 1933 in Boston, MA) is a leading American critic of poetry.. American poetry critic and professor
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Verdaguer,
Jacint
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Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló (Catalan pronunciation: ) (Folgueroles, May 17, 1845 - Vallvidrera, June 10, 1902) is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a national revival movement of the late Romantic era. The bishop Josep Torras i Bages, one of the main figures of Catalan nationalism, called him the "Prince of Catalan poets". He was also known as mossèn Cinto Verdaguer, because of his career as a priest.. Catalan poet; prominent figure in the Renaixença
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Vergilius Maro,
Publius
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Verlaine,
Paul
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Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.. French poet associated with the Symbolist movement
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Vermeersch,
Paul
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Paul Joseph Vermeersch (born 1973) is a Canadian poet.. Canadian poet
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Vielé-Griffin,
Francis
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Francis Vielé-Griffin (May 26, 1864–November 12, 1937), was a French symbolist poet. He was born at Norfolk, Virginia, USA and was the son of Egbert Ludovicus Viele.. French symbolist poet
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Viereck,
Peter
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Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (August 5, 1916 – May 13, 2006), was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and influential political thinker, as well as a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College for five decades.. American poet professor and political thinker
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Vigneault,
Gilles
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Gilles Vigneault, GOQ (French pronunciation: ; born October 27, 1928) is a Canadian poet, publisher and singer-songwriter, and well-known Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist.. Quebecois poet publisher and singer-songwriter
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Villani,
Luisa
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Villaurrutia,
Xavier
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Xavier Villaurrutia y González (27 August 1903 – 31 December 1950) was a Mexican poet and playwright, whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas, called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos published in 1953.. Mexican poet and playwright
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Villon,
Francois
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Vincent Benét,
Stephen
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Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon". In 2009, The Library of America selected Benét’s story “The King of Cats” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub.. American author poet short story writer and novelist
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Viorst,
Judith
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Visscher,
Roemer
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Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (1547 – 19 February 1620) was a successful Dutch merchant and writer in the period often called the Dutch Golden Age.. Dutch salesman writer and poet
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Voiture,
Vincent
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Vincent Voiture (24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648), French poet, was the son of a rich merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and accompanied him to Brussels and Lorraine on diplomatic missions.. French poet
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von Arnim,
Achim
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von Arnim,
Bettina
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Bettina von Arnim (the Countess of Arnim) (4 April 1785, Frankfurt am Main – 20 January 1859, Berlin), born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist.. German writer publisher composer singer and visual artist
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von der Vogelweide,
Walther
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Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170 – c. 1230) is the most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets.. most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets
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von Droste-Hülshoff,
Annette
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Anna Elizabeth von Droste-Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff ( ( listen); January 10, 1797 – May 25, 1848), was a 19th century German author, and one of the most important German poets.. German poet
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Von Eichendorff,
Joseph Freiherr
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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 1788 – 26 November 1857) was a German poet and novelist of the later German romantic school.. German poet and novelist of the later German romantic school
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von Eschenbach,
Wolfram
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Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170 – c. 1220) was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. As a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry.. German knight and poet; Minnesinger
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von Goethe,
Johann Wolfgang
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A German polymath: he was a poet, novelist, dramatist, humanist, scientist, theorist and painter.. German writer artist and politician
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von Hofmannsthal,
Hugo
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Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal German pronunciation: ; (1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.. Austrian novelist librettist poet dramatist narrator and essayist
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Voznesensky,
Andrei
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A Russian poet and writer.. Soviet and Russian poet
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Vraz,
Stanko
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Stanko Vraz (born Jakob Frass) (June 30, 1810 - May 20, 1851) was a Slovene-born Croatian poet. He Slavicized his name to Stanko Vraz in 1836.. Croatian-Slovenian poet
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