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8th century BC
Homer
c. 800 BC · life and anecdotes
6th century BC
Aesop
620 BC–564 BC · life and anecdotes
Laozi
c. 600 BC · life and anecdotes
Confucius
551 BC–479 BC · life and anecdotes
4th century BC
Plato
428 BC–348 BC · life and anecdotes
1st century
Sénèque
4 BC–65
2nd century
Epictetus
50–135 · life and anecdotes
Marcus Aurelius
121–180 · life and anecdotes
12th century
Marie de France
1160–1210
13th century
Rutebeuf
1230–1285
15th century
Christine de Pizan
1364–1431
Charles d'Orléans
1394–1465
Thomas Malory
1415–1471 · life and anecdotes
François Villon
1431
16th century
Niccolò Machiavelli
1469–1527 · life and anecdotes
Clément Marot
1496–1544
Thomas Wyatt
1503–1542 · life and anecdotes
Joachim du Bellay
1522–1560
Pierre de Ronsard
1524–1585
Louise Labé
1524–1566
Étienne de La Boétie
1530–1563
Michel de Montaigne
1533–1592 · life and anecdotes
Edmund Spenser
1552–1599 · life and anecdotes
Philip Sidney
1554–1586 · life and anecdotes
Christopher Marlowe
1564–1593 · life and anecdotes
17th century
Miguel de Cervantes
1547–1616 · life and anecdotes
François de Malherbe
1555–1628
Francis Bacon
1561–1626 · life and anecdotes
William Shakespeare
1564–1616 · life and anecdotes
John Donne
1572–1631 · life and anecdotes
Robert Herrick
1591–1674 · life and anecdotes
René Descartes
1596–1650 · life and anecdotes
Tristan L'Hermite
1601–1655
Pierre Corneille
1606–1684
John Milton
1608–1674 · life and anecdotes
François de La Rochefoucauld
1613–1680
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 · life and anecdotes
Andrew Marvell
1621–1678 · life and anecdotes
Jean de La Fontaine
1621–1695 · life and anecdotes
Molière
1622–1673
Blaise Pascal
1623–1662
Madame de Sévigné
1626–1696
Bossuet
1627–1704
Charles Perrault
1628–1703
Katherine Philips
1632–1664 · life and anecdotes
Samuel Pepys
1633–1703 · life and anecdotes
Madame de La Fayette
1634–1693
Nicolas Boileau
1636–1711
Madame Deshoulières
1638–1694
Jean Racine
1639–1699
Jean de La Bruyère
1645–1696
Madame d'Aulnoy
1651–1705
Fénelon
1651–1715
18th century
Daniel Defoe
1660–1731 · life and anecdotes
Jonathan Swift
1667–1745 · life and anecdotes
Alexander Pope
1688–1744 · life and anecdotes
Marivaux
1688–1763
Montesquieu
1689–1755
Voltaire
1694–1778
Benjamin Franklin
1706–1790 · life and anecdotes
Henry Fielding
1707–1754 · life and anecdotes
Samuel Johnson
1709–1784 · life and anecdotes
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
1711–1780
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712–1778
Laurence Sterne
1713–1768 · life and anecdotes
Denis Diderot
1713–1784
Vauvenargues
1715–1747
Thomas Gray
1716–1771 · life and anecdotes
Beaumarchais
1732–1799
Julie de Lespinasse
1732–1776
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
1737–1814
Nicolas de Chamfort
1741–1794
Choderlos de Laclos
1741–1803
Thomas Jefferson
1743–1826 · life and anecdotes
Olympe de Gouges
1748–1793
Antoine de Rivarol
1753–1801
Joseph Joubert
1754–1824
William Blake
1757–1827 · life and anecdotes
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1797 · life and anecdotes
Robert Burns
1759–1796 · life and anecdotes
André Chénier
1762–1794
Xavier de Maistre
1763–1852
Marie-Joseph Chénier
1764–1811
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772–1834 · life and anecdotes
19th century
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749–1832 · life and anecdotes
Madame de Staël
1766–1817
François-René de Chateaubriand
1768–1848
William Wordsworth
1770–1850 · life and anecdotes
Dorothy Wordsworth
1771–1855 · life and anecdotes
Jane Austen
1775–1817 · life and anecdotes
Clement Clarke Moore
1779–1863 · life and anecdotes
Francis Scott Key
1779–1843 · life and anecdotes
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
1780–1857
Washington Irving
1783–1859 · life and anecdotes
Jane Taylor
1783–1824 · life and anecdotes
Stendhal
1783–1842
Brothers Grimm
1785–1863 · life and anecdotes
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
1786–1859
Lord Byron
1788–1824 · life and anecdotes
Sarah Josepha Hale
1788–1879 · life and anecdotes
Alphonse de Lamartine
1790–1869
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792–1822 · life and anecdotes
John Clare
1793–1864 · life and anecdotes
Felicia Hemans
1793–1835 · life and anecdotes
William Cullen Bryant
1794–1878 · life and anecdotes
John Keats
1795–1821 · life and anecdotes
Mary Shelley
1797–1851 · life and anecdotes
Alfred de Vigny
1797–1863
Honoré de Balzac
1799–1850
Comtesse de Ségur
1799–1874
Alexandre Pouchkine
1799–1837
Victor Hugo
1802–1885 · life and anecdotes
Alexandre Dumas
1802–1870 · life and anecdotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803–1882 · life and anecdotes
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804–1864 · life and anecdotes
George Sand
1804–1876
Hans Christian Andersen
1805–1875 · life and anecdotes
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806–1861 · life and anecdotes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807–1882 · life and anecdotes
John Greenleaf Whittier
1807–1892 · life and anecdotes
Aloysius Bertrand
1807–1841
Gérard de Nerval
1808–1855
Edgar Allan Poe
1809–1849 · life and anecdotes
Alfred Tennyson
1809–1892 · life and anecdotes
Abraham Lincoln
1809–1865 · life and anecdotes
Elizabeth Gaskell
1810–1865 · life and anecdotes
Alfred de Musset
1810–1857
William Makepeace Thackeray
1811–1863 · life and anecdotes
Théophile Gautier
1811–1872
Charles Dickens
1812–1870 · life and anecdotes
Edward Lear
1812–1888 · life and anecdotes
Robert Browning
1812–1889 · life and anecdotes
Charlotte Brontë
1816–1855 · life and anecdotes
Henry David Thoreau
1817–1862 · life and anecdotes
Emily Brontë
1818–1848 · life and anecdotes
Frederick Douglass
1818–1895 · life and anecdotes
Leconte de Lisle
1818–1894
Herman Melville
1819–1891 · life and anecdotes
Walt Whitman
1819–1892 · life and anecdotes
George Eliot
1819–1880 · life and anecdotes
Anne Brontë
1820–1849 · life and anecdotes
Anna Sewell
1820–1878 · life and anecdotes
Eugène Fromentin
1820–1876
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821–1881 · life and anecdotes
Gustave Flaubert
1821–1880 · life and anecdotes
Charles Baudelaire
1821–1867
Fiodor Dostoïevski
1821–1881
Matthew Arnold
1822–1888 · life and anecdotes
Wilkie Collins
1824–1889 · life and anecdotes
Leo Tolstoy
1828–1910 · life and anecdotes
Henrik Ibsen
1828–1906 · life and anecdotes
Jules Verne
1828–1905 · life and anecdotes
Emily Dickinson
1830–1886 · life and anecdotes
Christina Rossetti
1830–1894 · life and anecdotes
Louise Michel
1830–1905
Lewis Carroll
1832–1898 · life and anecdotes
Louisa May Alcott
1832–1888 · life and anecdotes
Mark Twain
1835–1910 · life and anecdotes
Jean-Baptiste Clément
1836–1903
Sully Prudhomme
1839–1907
Thomas Hardy
1840–1928 · life and anecdotes
Émile Zola
1840–1902
Alphonse Daudet
1840–1897
Ambrose Bierce
1842–1914 · life and anecdotes
Stéphane Mallarmé
1842–1898
José-Maria de Heredia
1842–1905
Charles Cros
1842–1888
Henry James
1843–1916 · life and anecdotes
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844–1889 · life and anecdotes
Paul Verlaine
1844–1896
Tristan Corbière
1845–1875
Bram Stoker
1847–1912 · life and anecdotes
Emma Lazarus
1849–1887 · life and anecdotes
William Ernest Henley
1849–1903 · life and anecdotes
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850–1894 · life and anecdotes
Kate Chopin
1850–1904 · life and anecdotes
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1850–1919 · life and anecdotes
Guy de Maupassant
1850–1893
Oscar Wilde
1854–1900 · life and anecdotes
Arthur Rimbaud
1854–1891
L. Frank Baum
1856–1919 · life and anecdotes
Edmond Haraucourt
1856–1941
George Gissing
1857–1903 · life and anecdotes
Joseph Conrad
1857–1924 · life and anecdotes
Edith Nesbit
1858–1924 · life and anecdotes
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859–1930 · life and anecdotes
Jerome K. Jerome
1859–1927 · life and anecdotes
A. E. Housman
1859–1936 · life and anecdotes
Anton Chekhov
1860–1904 · life and anecdotes
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1860–1935 · life and anecdotes
Jules Laforgue
1860–1887
Jules Renard
1864–1910
Rudyard Kipling
1865–1936 · life and anecdotes
H. G. Wells
1866–1946 · life and anecdotes
Edmond Rostand
1868–1918
Stephen Crane
1871–1900 · life and anecdotes
Paul Laurence Dunbar
1872–1906 · life and anecdotes
Jack London
1876–1916 · life and anecdotes
20th century
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1849–1924 · life and anecdotes
Kenneth Grahame
1859–1932 · life and anecdotes
J. M. Barrie
1860–1937 · life and anecdotes
Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941 · life and anecdotes
Edith Wharton
1862–1937 · life and anecdotes
O. Henry
1862–1910 · life and anecdotes
William Butler Yeats
1865–1939 · life and anecdotes
Beatrix Potter
1866–1943 · life and anecdotes
Laurence Binyon
1869–1943 · life and anecdotes
Saki
1870–1916 · life and anecdotes
Marcel Proust
1871–1922 · life and anecdotes
John McCrae
1872–1918 · life and anecdotes
Charles Péguy
1873–1914
Colette
1873–1954
Lucy Maud Montgomery
1874–1942 · life and anecdotes
Anna de Noailles
1876–1933
Renée Vivien
1877–1909
Guillaume Apollinaire
1880–1918
Virginia Woolf
1882–1941 · life and anecdotes
James Joyce
1882–1941 · life and anecdotes
Sara Teasdale
1884–1933 · life and anecdotes
Joyce Kilmer
1886–1918 · life and anecdotes
Rupert Brooke
1887–1915 · life and anecdotes
Katherine Mansfield
1888–1923 · life and anecdotes
Wilfred Owen
1893–1918 · life and anecdotes
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