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  <title>Thomas Mann as a</title>
  <description>Thomas Mann as a young man German writer, 1875-1955. His novel 'Death in Venice' is at the source of the inspiration of Mahler's 5th Symphony. Also the source of Britten's opera 'Death in Venice'.</description>
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  <title>George Bernard Shaw -</title>
  <description>George Bernard Shaw - portrait. English writer (1856-1950)</description>
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  <title>STENDHAL (pseudonym for Henri</title>
  <description>STENDHAL (pseudonym for Henri Beyle). French novelist 1783-1842 (Le Rouge et le Noir)</description>
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  <title>Jules Verne - Portrait</title>
  <description>Jules Verne - Portrait. French writer. 1828-1905. Author of 'Eighty days around the world', 'Journey to the centre of the earth' and '20,000 leagues under the sea'.</description>
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  <title>William Shakespeare portrait</title>
  <description>William Shakespeare portrait with signature. Painting may be by Richard Burbage. English playwright. Meant to be most authentic portrait of Shakespeare. Chandos version.</description>
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  <title>Victor Hugo -</title>
  <description>Victor Hugo - French poet writer romancier, 26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885. postcard</description>
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  <title>Heinrich Heine German poet</title>
  <description>Heinrich Heine. German poet, 13 December 1797 - 17 February 1856.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-18T13:36:54Z</pubDate>
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  <title>TOLSTOY Leo Nikolaevich</title>
  <description>TOLSTOY, Leo Nikolaevich Russian Writer (1828-1910)</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-18T13:36:58Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Bronte sisters - Haworth</title>
  <description>Bronte sisters - Haworth Village, West Yorkshire where the English writers lived. 1800s</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-18T13:57:12Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Matthew Arnold - English</title>
  <description>Matthew Arnold - English poet, critic and literary theorist English poet, critic and literary theorist. 1822-1888</description>
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  <title>Matthew Paris - English</title>
  <description>Matthew Paris - English chronicler - Illumination from his ' Historia Major ' depicting the elephant sent by St. Louis to Henry III in 1255 c.1200-1259</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-18T15:21:05Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Sir Walter Raleigh -</title>
  <description>Sir Walter Raleigh - Title page of the first edition of ' History of the World ' 1614, by the English soldier, explorer, courtier and writer. 1552-1618. Elizabeth I connection</description>
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  <title>Charles Dickens - birthplace</title>
  <description>Charles Dickens - birthplace of the British novelist in Portsmouth. 7 February 1812-1870.</description>
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  <title>Francois Coppee - portrait</title>
  <description>Francois Coppee - portrait - French poet Academie Francais - 1842 - 1908</description>
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  <title>Hartley Coleridge - portrait</title>
  <description>Hartley Coleridge - portrait as child genius - English writer 19 September 1796 - 6 January 1849</description>
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  <title>Moli (real name Jan-Baptiste</title>
  <description>Moli (real name Jan-Baptiste Poquelin) - portrait. French dramatist, comic playwright, and theatre director, 1646 - 1673</description>
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  <title>Torquato Tasso Portrait Italian</title>
  <description>Torquato Tasso. Portrait. Italian poet. 1544-1595. His works inspired many composers: Monteverdi, Liszt, Handel, Byron. Campra, Rossini, Donizetti and others</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-18T16:46:10Z</pubDate>
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  <title>WHITMAN Walt -</title>
  <description>WHITMAN, Walt - portrait - American poet 1819-1892</description>
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  <title>WHITMAN Walt American</title>
  <description>WHITMAN, Walt American Poet</description>
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  <title>Guy de Maupassant portrait</title>
  <description>Guy de Maupassant portrait. French Writer, 1850-1893</description>
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  <title>MOLIE (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) French</title>
  <description>MOLIE (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) French Poet and Playwright, 1622-1673</description>
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  <title>Leon Tolstoy seated outdoors</title>
  <description>Leon Tolstoy, seated outdoors. Russian writer 1828 -1910</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-18T18:03:49Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Leo Tolstoy - portrait</title>
  <description>Leo Tolstoy - portrait of the Russian writer, aesthetic philosopher, moralist and mystic 1828-1910</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-19T11:21:37Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Sir Philip SIDNEY</title>
  <description>Sir Philip SIDNEY - miniature portrait by Oliver. Elizabethan Poet &amp; Courtier. Wrote Arcadia. Elizabethan/Jacobean pastoral. Madrigals. Madrigal</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-19T11:23:03Z</pubDate>
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  <title>MAETERLINCK Maurice - by</title>
  <description>MAETERLINCK, Maurice - by 'Max' [Beerbohm] Belgian writer, 1862-1949. Operas based on his works by Debussy, Dukas, Wolff, L Boulanger. from Vanity Fair. Caption: 'The Belgian Poet'</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-19T11:23:09Z</pubDate>
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  <title>John Milton English poet</title>
  <description>John Milton English poet, 1608-1674.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-19T11:49:37Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Robert Burns and Highland</title>
  <description>Robert Burns and Highland Mary. Scottish poet.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-19T11:53:33Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Charles Dickens -</title>
  <description>Charles Dickens - British novelist and his house. 1812-1870.</description>
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  <title>Dante Alighieri typical portrait</title>
  <description>Dante Alighieri, typical portrait with laurel wreath, and book in his hand. Engraving. Italian poet, 1265-1321.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-19T11:58:29Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Ivan Goncharov Russian writer</title>
  <description>Ivan Goncharov Russian writer. Postcard.</description>
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  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_939035/ivan-goncharov-russian-writer</link>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-19T12:37:17Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Dr Johnson reading the</title>
  <description>Dr Johnson reading the manuscript of 'The Vicar of Wakefield', written by Oliver Goldsmith. Painted scene. Samuel Johnson found a publisher for 'The Vicar of Wakefield' to save Goldsmith from imprisonment for debt. (Johnson: 1709 - 1784) postcard</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:14:46Z</pubDate>
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  <title>KINGSLEY Charles - portrait</title>
  <description>KINGSLEY, Charles - portrait. English writer and clergyman. Wrote 'The Water-Babies', 1863. (1819-75)</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:15:09Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Karl Theodor Koerner /</title>
  <description>Karl Theodor Koerner / Korner - portrait. German poet by C W Quinne 23 September 1791 - 26 August 1813</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:15:26Z</pubDate>
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  <title>GRILLPARZER Franz - portrait</title>
  <description>GRILLPARZER, Franz - portrait of the Austrian playwright holding a book. 1791-1872. Painting by Rudolf Hausleithner. Friend of SCHUBERT. Inspired a story by John Irving (' The Pension Grillparzer ')</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:16:22Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Madame Victor Hugo -</title>
  <description>Madame Victor Hugo - portrait. Wife of Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist and dramatist, circa 1830. Painted by Louis Boulanger. (Victor Hugo: 1802-1885)</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:16:46Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Anton Chekhov with actors</title>
  <description>Anton Chekhov with actors of the Moscow State Art Theatre in 1899 from l. to r standing.: Vishnevsky, Luzhski, Niemirovich Danchenko, Knipper, Stanislavsky, Roksanova, Nikolaeva, Andreiev,. and from l. to r. sitting: Rayevskaya, Artyom, Chekhov, Lilina, Tikhomirov, and Meyerhold. Russian playwright. Pre-Bolshevik Russia. Writer. photographic postcard.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:16:52Z</pubDate>
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  <title>HUGO Victor - postcard</title>
  <description>HUGO, Victor - postcard portrait with house in Paris where he died - French poet, novelist, writer (1802-1885). Wrote Les Miserables.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:16:57Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Heinrich Heine sadly leaving</title>
  <description>Heinrich Heine, sadly leaving Germany before going into exile. German poet. 1797-1856. Caption reads 'lebewohl du heilge schwelle, wo da wandelt liebchen traut, lebewohl du heilge stelle, wo ich sie zuerst geschaut.' Painted by F. Courths, dates unknown.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:20:51Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi portrait</title>
  <description>Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, portrait. Swiss writer and teacher, 12 January 1746- 17 February 1827</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:29:38Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Wilhelm Von Humboldt /</title>
  <description>Wilhelm Von Humboldt / Humbold, German writer 22 June 1767- 8 April 1835</description>
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  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940240/wilhelm-von-humboldt-</link>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:29:44Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Thomas Hardy landscape Wellbridge</title>
  <description>Thomas Hardy, landscape. Wellbridge, The Manor House. From 'The Wessex of Thomas Hardy'. English poet and novelist. 1840-1928.</description>
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  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940248/thomas-hardy-landscape-wellbridge</link>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:30:44Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Thomas de Quincey portrait</title>
  <description>Thomas de Quincey, portrait. English journalist and essayist 1785-1859. Best known for his autobiography 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater'.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:31:23Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Jean Baptiste Racine portrait</title>
  <description>Jean Baptiste Racine, portrait. French dramatist 22 December 1639 - 26 April 1699</description>
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  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940253/jean-baptiste-racine-portrait</link>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:31:33Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Jean Racine portrait French</title>
  <description>Jean Racine, portrait. French dramatist and playwright, 22 December 1639 - 21 April 1699</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:31:47Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Fritz Reuter portrait -</title>
  <description>Fritz Reuter, portrait - German novelist - 7 November 1810-12 July 1874</description>
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  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940258/fritz-reuter-portrait-</link>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:32:13Z</pubDate>
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  <item>
  <title>Arthur Schnitzler portrait</title>
  <description>Arthur Schnitzler, portrait. Austrian playwright, 1862-1931. Wrote 'La Ronde' or 'Reigen'.</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940261/arthur-schnitzler-portrait</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940261/arthur-schnitzler-portrait.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940261/arthur-schnitzler-portrait.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:32:25Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940261</guid>
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  <title>Wilhelm Schneider - Clauss</title>
  <description>Wilhelm Schneider - Clauss, portrait. German writer,</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940262/wilhelm-schneider-clauss</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940262/wilhelm-schneider-clauss.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940262/wilhelm-schneider-clauss.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:32:34Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940262</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940262/wilhelm-schneider-clauss.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>William Shakespeare statue Weimar</title>
  <description>William Shakespeare, statue, Weimar. By professor Otto Lessing. English playwright, 1564-1616</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940266/william-shakespeare-statue-weimar</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940266/william-shakespeare-statue-weimar.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940266/william-shakespeare-statue-weimar.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:32:56Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940266</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940266/william-shakespeare-statue-weimar.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <item>
  <title>William Shakespeare framed portrait</title>
  <description>William Shakespeare, framed portrait. English playwright, 1564-1616</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940269/william-shakespeare-framed-portrait</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940269/william-shakespeare-framed-portrait.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940269/william-shakespeare-framed-portrait.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:33:10Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940269</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940269/william-shakespeare-framed-portrait.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Chateau de la Poissionniere</title>
  <description>Chateau de la Poissionniere - Vendomois region, France. Pierre de Ronsard ' castle - French poet, September 1524 - December 1585. Engraving</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940274/chateau-de-la-poissionniere</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940274/chateau-de-la-poissionniere.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940274/chateau-de-la-poissionniere.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:34:01Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940274</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940274/chateau-de-la-poissionniere.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940274.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Robert Burns silhouette by</title>
  <description>Robert Burns, silhouette by John Miers, 1787. Scottish poet, 1759 - 1796</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940285/robert-burns-silhouette-by</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940285/robert-burns-silhouette-by.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940285/robert-burns-silhouette-by.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:35:21Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940285</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940285/robert-burns-silhouette-by.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940285.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Lord Byron after riding</title>
  <description>Lord Byron, after riding, silhouette. Cut-out by Mrs Leigh Hunt. English poet, 1788 - 1824</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940287/lord-byron-after-riding</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940287/lord-byron-after-riding.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940287/lord-byron-after-riding.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:35:38Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940287</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940287/lord-byron-after-riding.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Sir Walter Scott silhouette</title>
  <description>Sir Walter Scott, silhouette by Edouart. Scottish novelist and poet, 1771 - 1832</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940288/sir-walter-scott-silhouette</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940288/sir-walter-scott-silhouette.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940288/sir-walter-scott-silhouette.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:35:51Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940288</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940288/sir-walter-scott-silhouette.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940288.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>George Bernard Shaw -</title>
  <description>George Bernard Shaw - Irish dramatist, critic and Nobel Prize winner. Photographic portrait of him between the statues of Homer and Nero. 1856-1950.</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940293/george-bernard-shaw-</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940293/george-bernard-shaw-.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940293/george-bernard-shaw-.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:36:09Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940293</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940293/george-bernard-shaw-.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Robert Southey - British</title>
  <description>Robert Southey - British poet and writer. Friend of Coleridge. Poet Laureate. 1774-1843.</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940296/robert-southey-british</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940296/robert-southey-british.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940296/robert-southey-british.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:36:36Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940296</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940296/robert-southey-british.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Emile Verhaeren - portrait</title>
  <description>Emile Verhaeren - portrait. Belgian poet 1855-1916</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940305/emile-verhaeren-portrait</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940305/emile-verhaeren-portrait.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940305/emile-verhaeren-portrait.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:38:15Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940305</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940305/emile-verhaeren-portrait.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940305.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Jules Verne - portrait</title>
  <description>Jules Verne - portrait. French writer 1828-1905. Author of ' Around the world in 80 days', 'Journey to the centre of the earth' and '20,000 leagues under the sea'.</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940307/jules-verne-portrait</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940307/jules-verne-portrait.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940307/jules-verne-portrait.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:38:48Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940307</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940307/jules-verne-portrait.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940307.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>H G Wells (Herbert</title>
  <description>H G Wells, (Herbert George) - English novelist, short-story writer and popular historian 1866-1946</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940310/h-g-wells-herbert</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940310/h-g-wells-herbert.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940310/h-g-wells-herbert.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:39:14Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940310</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940310/h-g-wells-herbert.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Ernst von Wolzogen -</title>
  <description>Ernst von Wolzogen - Polish writer and particularly influential on cabaret, 1855-1934</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940318/ernst-von-wolzogen-</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940318/ernst-von-wolzogen-.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940318/ernst-von-wolzogen-.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:39:57Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940318</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940318/ernst-von-wolzogen-.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940318.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>William Wordsworth - grave</title>
  <description>William Wordsworth - grave of the English poet in Grasmere. 1770-1850.</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940319/william-wordsworth-grave</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940319/william-wordsworth-grave.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940319/william-wordsworth-grave.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:40:04Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940319</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940319/william-wordsworth-grave.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940319.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Israel Zangwill English writer</title>
  <description>Israel Zangwill English writer 1864-1926</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940320/israel-zangwill-english-writer</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940320/israel-zangwill-english-writer.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940320/israel-zangwill-english-writer.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:40:15Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940320</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940320/israel-zangwill-english-writer.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940320.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Canterbury pilgrims portrait -</title>
  <description>Canterbury pilgrims portrait - illuminated manuscript Geoffrey Chaucer</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940327/canterbury-pilgrims-portrait-</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940327/canterbury-pilgrims-portrait-.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940327/canterbury-pilgrims-portrait-.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:41:08Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940327</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940327/canterbury-pilgrims-portrait-.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Pierre Corneille - French</title>
  <description>Pierre Corneille - French dramatist and writer. 1606-1684</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940335/pierre-corneille-french</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940335/pierre-corneille-french.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940335/pierre-corneille-french.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:42:23Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940335</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940335/pierre-corneille-french.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Fenelon - French bishop</title>
  <description>Fenelon - French bishop and author - portrait 1651-1751 - tutor to eldest Louis XIV son, Duke of Burgundy</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940347/fenelon-french-bishop</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940347/fenelon-french-bishop.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940347/fenelon-french-bishop.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:44:56Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940347</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940347/fenelon-french-bishop.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940347.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Samuel Johnson - English</title>
  <description>Samuel Johnson - English author, poet - portrait 18 September 1709 - 13 December 1784 - from engraving by Finden</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940355/samuel-johnson-english</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940355/samuel-johnson-english.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940355/samuel-johnson-english.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:45:58Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940355</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940355/samuel-johnson-english.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940355.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Charles Dickens - portrait</title>
  <description>Charles Dickens - portrait engraving by JC Armytage from photo taken in 1868. English novelist,1812-1870.</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940363/charles-dickens-portrait</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940363/charles-dickens-portrait.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940363/charles-dickens-portrait.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:47:43Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940363</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940363/charles-dickens-portrait.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Christopher North - pseudonym</title>
  <description>Christopher North - pseudonym of John Wilson - portrait - Scottish writer - 18 May 1785 - 3 April 1854</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940386/christopher-north-pseudonym</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940386/christopher-north-pseudonym.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940386/christopher-north-pseudonym.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:52:26Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940386</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940386/christopher-north-pseudonym.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940386.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Edward Bulwer-Lytton - portrait</title>
  <description>Edward Bulwer-Lytton - portrait - English novelist, playwright, and politician 25 May 1803 - 18 January 1873</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940395/edward-bulwer-lytton-portrait</link>
  <enclosure url="http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940395/edward-bulwer-lytton-portrait.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
  <image>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940395/edward-bulwer-lytton-portrait.jpg</image>
  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:53:51Z</pubDate>
  <guid>dmcs-940395</guid>
  <media:thumbnail url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940395/edward-bulwer-lytton-portrait.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
  <media:content url='http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/image/preview_940395.jpg' type='image/jpeg' />
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  <title>Isaac Watts - detail</title>
  <description>Isaac Watts - detail of the bust by Banks at Westminster Abbey - English hymn writer - 17 July 1674 - 25 November 1748</description>
  <category>&gt; Authors</category>
  <copyright>Copyright Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
  <link>http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940403/isaac-watts-detail</link>
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  <title>Isaac Watts - woodcut</title>
  <description>Isaac Watts - woodcut from Watts 's 'Divine and Moral Songs for Children', 1866 edition - English hymn writer - 17 July 1674 - 25 November 1748</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:55:33Z</pubDate>
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  <title>'The Burning of Shelley's</title>
  <description>'The Burning of Shelley's Body' by Louis E. Fournier. Percy Bysshe Shelley, English romantic poet. 4 September 1792 - 8 July 1822. Shelley drowned in 1822 off the Italian coast. The funeral pyre is surrounded by close friends: Trelawney, Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T12:56:55Z</pubDate>
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  <title>William Cowper portrait</title>
  <description>William Cowper, portrait. English poet and hymnodist. 15 November 1731 - 25 April 1800. From the portrait by George Romney</description>
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  <title>Leo Tolstoy - portrait</title>
  <description>Leo Tolstoy - portrait of the Russian writer, aesthetic philosopher, moralist and mystic. 1828-1910. Painted by Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter, 5 August 1844 - 29 September 1930.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:08:05Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Nikolai Alekseyevich Nekrasov -</title>
  <description>Nikolai Alekseyevich Nekrasov - portrait of the Russian poet. 28 November 1821 - 8 January 1878.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:08:30Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Friedrich von Schiller bust</title>
  <description>Friedrich von Schiller, bust by Johann Heinrich Dannecker, 1794. German 18th-century dramatist, poet, and literary theorist. 1759-1805</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:15:21Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Honore Balzac portrait</title>
  <description>Honore Balzac, portrait drawing by Vogel von Vogelstein. French novelist and poet. 20 May 1799 - 19 August 1850. Kupferstich Kabinett, Dresden.</description>
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  <title>'The Bookbinder' - a</title>
  <description>'The Bookbinder' - a woodcut by Jost Amman,1568 with verse. From 'Die Verse von Hans Sachs'. At his bench with assistant in workshop. Amman: 1539-1591 - Swiss designer, draughtsman, painter, printmaker. Sachs: 1494-1576 - German poet, playwright, singwriter, shoemaker and guild master. Craftsman</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:15:56Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Ricarda Huch portrait photograph</title>
  <description>Ricarda Huch, portrait photograph taken 1947. German novelist, poet, cultural historian. August 18 1864 - November 17 1947</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:16:08Z</pubDate>
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  <title>The Works of Flavius</title>
  <description>The Works of Flavius Josephus translated by William Whiston. Josephus (c. 37-c. 100) was a 1st century Jewish historian of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 and later settled in Rome under patronage of Flavius. Original name Yosef Ben-Matityahu (Matthias in Greek) means Joseph, son of M . Wrote the History of the Jews while in Rome.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:16:20Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Jean Racine - Portrait</title>
  <description>Jean Racine - Portrait after a picture at the Musde Langres. In periwig and cravat. 20 December 1639-21 April 1699. French tragic dramatist, poet, elected to Acade Franse 1672.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:16:32Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Emile Zola 's trial</title>
  <description>Emile Zola 's trial in Versailles - crowds kept away from his carriage by mounted French police. News story in Le Petit Journal 31 July, 1898. Caption reads Le Proces Zola a Versailles; depart de Zola. Took place while Zola protesting at the Dreyfus case.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:27:17Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Native American - in</title>
  <description>Native American - in traditional dress and headdress with an excerpt from 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. HL: American poet, 27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882. Red Indian. Indians</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:32:33Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Karel Capek - portrait</title>
  <description>Karel Capek - portrait of the Czech writer. 9 January 1890 - 26 December 1938. Introduced and made popular the word 'robot' in his plays . Famous play R.U.R. -- (Rossum's Universal Robots)</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:42:41Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Virginia Woolf - portrait</title>
  <description>Virginia Woolf - portrait of the English novelist and essayist. 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:45:29Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</title>
  <description>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 's poem Hermann and Dorothea, illustrated scene by Oldach. German writer, politician, humanist, scientist, and philosopher 28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832</description>
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  <title>Samuel Richardson - scene</title>
  <description>Samuel Richardson - scene from Pamela. Pamela asking Sir Jacob Swinford for his blessing, painting by Joseph Highmore. Richardson - English writer, 19 August 1689 - 4 July 1761.</description>
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  <title>ile Zola in the</title>
  <description>ile Zola in the Paris Les Halles market, illustration. French novelist 2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902. Scene from play 'Le Tentation de Saint Antoine' by Henri Rivi.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:48:01Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Hilaire Belloc - portrait</title>
  <description>Hilaire Belloc - portrait of the French English writer and poet. 27 July 1870 - 16 July 1953. Drawing by H A Perry.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:48:28Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Cosmopolitan Magazine cover March</title>
  <description>Cosmopolitan Magazine cover. March 1939 issue. Girl with blonde hair and Hawaiian flower lei - illustration for story inside the magazine.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:48:53Z</pubDate>
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  <title>George Gordon Byron /</title>
  <description>George Gordon Byron / Lord Byron - illustration of a scene from the poem 'Childe Harold' by the English poet. 'Her lover sinks - she sheds no ill-timed tear; Her chief is slain - she fills his fatal post.' War, cannon, fighting, death. Lord Byron: 22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824. A childe is a young man who is a candidate for knighthood. Berlioz connection: his symphony 'Harold in Italy' is inspired by this poem.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T13:58:49Z</pubDate>
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  <title>George Gordon Byron /</title>
  <description>George Gordon Byron / Lord Byron - illustration of a scene from the poem 'Hours of Idleness' by the English poet. 'Oh! As I trace again thy winding hill, mine eyes admire, my heart adores thee still.' Typical English countryside, with a field, church with steeple and a country house. 22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824.</description>
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  <title>George Gordon Byron /</title>
  <description>George Gordon Byron / Lord Byron - illustration of a scene from the poem 'Hebrew Melodies' by the English poet. 'The wild gazelle, on Judah's hills, exulting yet may bound.' A field of gazelles. Dear / antelope like animal. 22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824.</description>
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  <title>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</title>
  <description>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - illustration of a scene from his tragedy 'Egmont' , 1788 with Egmont and Klara. German writer and poet, 28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832. Clara</description>
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  <title>Victor HUGO - portrait</title>
  <description>Victor HUGO - portrait of the French poet and novelist offering his lyre to the city of Paris 1802-1885. Painted by Puvis de Chavannes in the H de Ville de Paris (City Hall) in 1894.</description>
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  <title>Leo Tolstoi on his</title>
  <description>Leo Tolstoi on his way to the Optina Pustin Monastery. Russian author, 28 August 1828 - 7 November 1910.</description>
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  <title>George Bernard Shaw -</title>
  <description>George Bernard Shaw - portrait of the Irish dramatist, critic and Nobel Prize winner. 26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T14:14:16Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Friedrich Schiller - Flight</title>
  <description>Friedrich Schiller - Flight from Stuttgart, September 1782. German poet, dramatist, philosopher and historian. 1759-1805. Liebig advert.</description>
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  <title>Sperone Speroni - portrait</title>
  <description>Sperone Speroni - portrait of the Italian Renaissance humanist, scholar and dramatist. Early 17th century engraving. 1500 - 1588</description>
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  <title>Torquato Tasso - the</title>
  <description>Torquato Tasso - the Italian poet 's home in Bergamo. 11 March 1544 - 25 April 1595</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T14:21:34Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Dante Gabriel Rossetti -</title>
  <description>Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 'Early Italian Poets', 1861. The English poet, artist and translator 's design for the title page of his translations from Dante Alighieri and other Italian writers. 12 May 1828 -10 April 1882.</description>
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  <title>Samuel Daniel - Title</title>
  <description>Samuel Daniel - Title page of the English poet and historian's historical poem, 'Civil Wars'. London, 1609 Edition. With a portrait of the author. 1562 - 1619. The First Four Books of the Civil Wars, (1595) about the Wars of the Roses.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T14:25:58Z</pubDate>
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  <title>Axel Munthe portrait</title>
  <description>Axel Munthe portrait Swedish doctor, writer and psychiatrist 31 October 1857 - 11 February 1949</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T14:27:17Z</pubDate>
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  <title>William Shakespeare Life of</title>
  <description>William Shakespeare, Life of. English playwright. Shakespeare among travelling actors / strolling players Illustration advertisement for Viande Liebig. 1564-1616</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T14:27:38Z</pubDate>
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  <title>William Shakespeare Life of</title>
  <description>William Shakespeare, Life of. English playwright. Shakespeare seeing his old friend for the last time. Illustration advertisement for Viande Liebig. 1564-1616</description>
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  <title>John Lydgate of Bury</title>
  <description>John Lydgate of Bury from the Harleian Manuscript by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford, his son Edward, 2nd Earl of Oxford and his grandson Edward, 3rd Earl of Oxford. Caption reads: 'Lydgate presenting his poem to the King'. RH: English statesman: 5 December 1661 - 21 May 1724. EH 2nd: 1689-1741. EH 3rd: c 1699 - 11 April 1755. JL: British monk and poet: c 1370 - c 1451.</description>
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  <pubDate>2008-04-21T15:41:33Z</pubDate>
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