William Shakespeare
Born
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom
Died
April 23, 1616
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Romeo and Juliet
by
5989 editions
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published
1595
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Hamlet
5427 editions
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published
1603
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Macbeth
4552 editions
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published
1606
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by
3952 editions
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published
1595
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Othello
2539 editions
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published
1603
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Much Ado About Nothing
by
2211 editions
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published
1598
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King Lear
2220 editions
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published
1605
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The Tempest
1529 editions
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published
1611
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Twelfth Night
2298 editions
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published
1601
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Julius Caesar
2854 editions
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published
1599
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― As You Like It
― As You Like It
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Who is your favorite poet?
T. S. Eliot
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Sylvia Plath
William Blake
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Walt Whitman
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Robert frost
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Jon Keats
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Bob Dylan
Franz Kafka
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Edgar Allan Poe, Shelley, Shakespeare and Jim Morrison, also Alfred Noyes
Seamus Heaney
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Not sure yet
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Charles Baudelaire
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W. H. Auden
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I'm not a fan of poetry
Jim Morrison
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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Tomas Tranströmer or Kahlil Gibran
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Lord Byron
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Paul Celan
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George Sterling
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Ivan Vazov
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Matsuo Basho
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Lang Leav
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Wilfred Owen
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Herman Hesse
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Edward Lear
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Mary Oliver
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Anne Sexton
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Rachel Rooney
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Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sara Teasdale
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juana de ibarbourou
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A. S. Pushkin
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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John Keats and Giacomo Leopardi
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San Juan de la Cruz
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Arthur Rimbaud
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Theodor Geisel
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Philip Larkin
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Big L
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Robert Service
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Victor Hugo
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Marin Sorescu
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Idea Vilariño
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Rabindera Nath Tagore
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Hugo Claus
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Dante Alighieri
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Frank O'Hara
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Sonya Sones
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Alfred Noyes
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