Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

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1. Charles William Eliot

   Author of The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato; The Golden sayings of Epictetus; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Elizabethan Drama, Volume I: Marlowe; Shakespeare, Sacred Writings, Volume I: Confucian; Hebrew; Christian (Part I)

2. Harold Bloom

   Author of How to Read and Why, Genius : a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds, Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages

3. Will Durant

   Author of The Story of Philosophy, Our Oriental Heritage, The Age of Reason Begins

4. Edmund Burke

   Author of A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, On taste; On the sublime and beautiful; Reflections on the French revolution; A letter to a noble lord

5. Plutarch

   Author of The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demostheses and Cicero,Cæsar and Antony

6. Richard Henry Dana

   Author of Two Years Before the Mast, Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After

7. Alfred Lord Tennyson

   Author of Idylls of the King, Poems of Tennyson, Selected Poems

8. Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Author of Essays and English Traits, Poems

9. Elizabeth Gaskell

   Author of North and South, Mary Barton, The Life of Charlotte Brontë

10. Robert Browning

    Author of Selected Poems (Penguin Classics), My Last Duchess and Other Poems, Robert Browning's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition)

11. George Eliot

    Author of Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede

12. Robert Frost

    Author of The Poetry of Robert Frost, Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (Library of America), A Boy's Will/North of Boston

13. James Boswell

    Author of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

14. Emily Dickinson

    Author of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Final Harvest: Poems, Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson

15. William Wordsworth

    Author of The Prelude, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Favorite Poems

16. Saint Augustine

    Author of The Confessions of St. Augustine; The Imitation of Christ by Thomas À Kempis

17. Sir Walter Scott

    Author of Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian, Quentin Durward

18. Blaise Pascal

    Author of Blaise Pascal: Thoughts; Letters; Minor Works

19. Miguel de Cervantes

    Author of Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2]

20. John Keats

    Author of The Poetical Works of John Keats, Selected Poems (Penguin Classics), Lyric Poems