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1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 | ........SPANISH.......
Cervantes (1547) Lope de Vega (1562) Quevedo (1580) Calderon (1600) Perez Galdos (1843) Jimenez (1881) Garcia Lorca (1898) | ..HISPANIC..
Dario (1867) Borges (1899) Neruda (1904) Carpentier (1904) Cortazar (1914) Paz (1914) Marquez (1928) Vargas Llosa (1936) | PORTUGUESE
Camoes (1524) Assis (1839) Queiros (1845) Machado (1875) Pessoa (1888) Saramago (1922) | ......ITALIAN....
Dante (1265) Petrarca (1304) Boccaccio (1313) Ariosto (1474) Goldoni (1707) Leopardi (1798) Pascoli (1855) Svevo (1861) Pirandello (1867) Gadda (1893) Montale (1896) Pavese (1908) Zanzotto (1921) Calvino (1923) | AGE
1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 | ....FRENCH....
Chretien (11xx) Villon (1431) Rabelais (1494) Moliere (1622) Voltaire (1694) Stendhal (1783) Balzac (1799) Hugo (1802) Baudelaire (1821) Flaubert (1821) Zola (1840) Mallarme` (1842) Rimbaud (1854) Gide (1869) Proust (1871) Valery (1871) Cocteau (1889) Celine (1894) Sartre (1905) Beckett (1906) Camus (1913) | ..GERMAN..
Goethe (1749) Schiller (1759) Holderlin (1770) Kleist (1771) Novalis (1772) Heine (1797) Hoffmann (1809) Buchner (1813) Schnitzler (1862) Wedekind (1864) Rilke (1875) Mann (1875) Hesse (1877) Musil (1880) Kafka (1883) Brecht (1898) Canetti (1905) Durrenmatt(1921) Bernhard (1931) | ....ENGLISH....
Chaucer (1340) Spenser (1552) Marlowe (1564) Shakespeare (1564) Donne (1572) Milton (1608) Swift (1667) Blake (1757) Wordsworth (1770) Dickens (1812) Bronte (1818) G. Eliot (1819) Hardy (1840) Hopkins (1844) Shaw (1856) Conrad (1857) Yeats (1865) Joyce (1882) Woolf (1882) Pinter (1930) Heaney (1939) | ......U.S.A.......
Melville (1819) James (1843) Stevens (1879) Pound (1885) T.S. Eliot (1888) Fitzgerald (1896) Faulkner (1897) Nabokov (1899) Bellow (1915) Gaddis (1922) Ashbery (1927) Barth (1930) Pynchon (1937) Morrison (1942) | AGE
1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 | ....GREEK...
Seferis (1900) Ritsos (1909) Elitis (1911) | ......RUSSIAN......
Pushkin (1799) Gogol (1809) Turgenev (1818) Dostoevskij (1821) Tolstoj (1828) Cechov (1860) Blok (1880) Bely (1880) Achmatova (1889) Pasternak (1890) Mandelstam (1891) Bulgakov (1891) Majakovskij (1893) Yevtushenko (1933) Brodsky (1940) | ....POLISH....
Norwid (1821) Witkiewicz (1885) Gombrowicz (1904) Milosz (1911) Lem (1921) Herbert (1924) | HUNGARIAN
Krasznahorkai (1954) | ....CZECH....
Holan (1905) Kundera (1929) | SCANDINAVIAN
Ibsen (1828) Strindberg (1849) Lagerlof (1858) Under (1883) | AGE
1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 | ANGLOPHONES
Tagore (1861) White (1912) Walcott (1930) Soyinka (1934) Rushdie (1947) | ..JAPANESE..
Tanizaki (1886) Murakami (1949) | ....HEBREW....
Singer (1904) Oz (1939) | ....PERSIAN....
Ferdowsi (940)
Omar Khayyam (1050) Nezami (1140) Rumi (1207) Hafez (1324) | AGE
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