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THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS OF ALL TIME
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The 100 most influential writers of all time / edited by J. E. Luebering.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(The Britannica guide to the world’s most influential people)
ISBN 978-1-61530-096-9 (eBook)
1. Authors—Biography. 2. Literature—Bio-bibliography. I. Luebering, J. E. II. Title: One
hundred most influential writers of all time.
PN451.A15 2010
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On the cover: The influence of William Shakespeare, considered the greatest dramatist of all
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CONTENTS
Introduction
8
37
Homer
17
Aeschylus
22
Sophocles
26
Aristophanes
29
Gaius Valerius Catullus
31
Virgil
33
Imru’ al-Qays
38
Du Fu
39
al-Mutanabb
ī
41
Ferdows
ī
42
Murasaki Shikibu
45
R
m
ī
46
83
Dante
51
Petrarch
55
Geoffrey Chaucer
58
Luís de Camões
62
Michel de Montaigne
64
Miguel de Cervantes
67
Edmund Spenser
73
Lope de Vega
76
Christopher Marlowe
78
William Shakespeare
80
112
John Donne
89
John Milton
93
Jean Racine
96
Aphra Behn
99
Bash
ō
100
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
103
Daniel Defoe
105
Jonathan Swift
108
Voltaire
111
Henry Fielding
114
Samuel Johnson
116
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