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c. 1500 BCE

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c. 750 BCE

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c. 600 BCE

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484 BCE
468 BCE

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454 BCE
423 BCE
c. 425 BCE
37 BCE

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23 BCE

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c. 20 BCE

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c. 380

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c. 600

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c. 730

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778

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c. 950

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c. 1080

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c. 1102

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c. 1120

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c. 1130

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c. 1160

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1257

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c. 1260

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c. 1307

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1327

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1341

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c. 1367

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c. 1370

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c. 1375

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1385

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c. 1387

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1461

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1487

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1516

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1550

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1572

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1581
1590

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1609
1633

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1637
1650
1667

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1712
1751
1762
1778
1781
1786

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1789
1791

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1794

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1796

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1797
1798
1804
1805
1810
1812
1814

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1817
1818
1819
1820


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1823

Go to Moore, Clement Clarke (1779–1863) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1829

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1830
1831

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Go to Last Leaf, The in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1832

Go to Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)

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1833

Go to Pushkin, Alexander (1799–1837) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1841
1842
1845

Go to Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–49) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1846
1847

Go to Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1850
1854
1855

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1857

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1858

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1859
1861

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1862
1866

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1867

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Go to spiritual in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.)

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1870

Go to Rimbaud, Arthur (1854–91) in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)

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Go to Plain Language from Truthful James in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1876

Go to Korea, national library of, North Korea in The Oxford Companion to the Book (1 ed.)

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1884

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1889
1890

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1891
1892

Go to Leaves of Grass in The Oxford Companion to the Book (1 ed.)

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1896

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1902
1904

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1908

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1910

Go to Cavafy, Constantine Peter (1863–1933) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1911
1912

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Go to Akhmatova, Anna (1889–1966) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892–1950) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1913

Go to Frost, Robert (1874–1963) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Mandelstam, Osip in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)

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1914

Go to Mistral, Gabriela (1889–1957) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Frost, Robert (1874–1963) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Lowell, Amy (1874–1925) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Sandburg, Carl (1878–1967) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1915

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Go to Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893–1930) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Masters, Edgar Lee (1868?–1950) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1916

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Go to Doolittle, Hilda (1886–1961) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1917

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Go to Valéry, Paul (-Ambroise) (1871–1945) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1918

Go to Blok, Alexander (28 Nov. 1880) in The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (1 ed.)

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Go to Owen, Wilfred (1893–1918) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1919

Go to Pound, Ezra (1885–1972) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1920

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1921

Go to Moore, Marianne (1887–1972) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1922

Go to Joyce, James Augustine (1882–1941) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna (1892–1941) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich (1890–1960) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Valéry, Paul (-Ambroise) (1871–1945) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1923

Go to Borges, Jorge Luis (1899–1986) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Stevens, Wallace (1879–1955) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Frost, Robert (1874–1963) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Cummings, E[dward] E[stlin] (1894–1962) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892–1950) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875–1926) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1924

Go to Jeffers, Robinson (1887–1962) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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Go to Neruda, Pablo (1904–1973) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869–1935) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1925

Go to Montale, Eugenio (1896–1981) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1926
1928

Go to Yeats, W. B. (1865–1939) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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Go to Benét, Stephen Vincent (1898–1943) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to García Lorca, Federico (1898–1936) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1929
1930
1931

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1932
1933

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c. 1935

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1938

Go to Schwartz, Delmore (1913–68) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1939
c. 1942

Go to Jarrell, Randall (1914–65) in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English (1 ed.)

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1944

Go to Lowell, Robert (1917–77) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1946

Go to Lord Weary's Castle in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Bishop, Elizabeth (1911–1979) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1948

Go to Roethke, Theodore (1908–63) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Cantos, The in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Beat and Beat Generation in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1949

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1950

Go to Neruda, Pablo (1904–1973) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1953

Go to Baldwin, James (1924–1987) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1955
1956

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1957
1960

Go to Plath, Sylvia (1932–63) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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Go to Bukowski, Charles (1920–1994) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Summoned by Bells in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English (1 ed.)

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Go to Sot-Weed Factor, The in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1961

Go to Babi Yar in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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1962

Go to Baldwin, James (1924–1987) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Ashbery, John (1927–) in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (1 ed.)

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1963
1964

Go to Berryman, John (1914–72) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to For the Union Dead in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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Go to Adcock, Fleur (1934–) in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (1 ed.)

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1965

Go to Jarrell, Randall (1914–65) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1966
1967

Go to Sexton, Anne (1928–74) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1968

Go to Cantos, The in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English (1 ed.)

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1970

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1972
1978
1981
1984

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1985
1987
1990

Go to Walcott, Derek (1930– ) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1992
1993

Go to Ammons, A[rchie] R[andolph] (1926–2001) in The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)

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1995

Go to Levine, Philip (1928–) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1997
1999

Go to Heaney, Seamus [Justin] (1939) in The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (1 ed.)

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