T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)

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1. T. S. Eliot

   Author of The Waste Land and Other Poems, Selected Poems, On Poetry and Poets

2. Ezra Pound

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3. James Joyce

   Author of Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners
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4. 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

5. Dorothy L. Sayers

   Author of Strong Poison, The Nine Tailors, Unnatural Death
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6. W. H. Auden

   Author of Selected Poems, Tell Me the Truth About Love, Auden: Poems
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7. Rainer Maria Rilke

   Author of Letters to a Young Poet, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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8. William Shakespeare

   Author of Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida
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9. George Bernard Shaw

   Author of Pygmalion, Man and Superman, Arms and the Man
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10. W. B. Yeats

    Author of W. B. Yeats: Selected Poems, A Vision, The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. II: The Plays
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11. Henry James

    Author of The Portrait of a Lady, Daisy Miller, What Maisie Knew
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12. Dylan Thomas

    Author of Under Milk Wood, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
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13. Samuel Beckett

    Author of Waiting for Godot, More Pricks Than Kicks, The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989
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14. William Faulkner

    Author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Go Down, Moses
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15. Wallace Stevens

    Author of Collected poems, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
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16. William Carlos Williams

    Author of Selected Poems, Paterson, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

17. C. S. Lewis

    Author of The Four Loves, The Weight of Glory, God in the Dock
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18. Virginia Woolf

    Author of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own

19. Edward Gorey

    Author of Amphigorey, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Amphigorey Also
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20. Walt Whitman

    Author of Leaves of Grass, Poetry and Prose, Leaves of grass: first and death-bed editions