Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)

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1. Rainer Maria Rilke

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

2. Thomas Mann

   Author of Buddenbrooks, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years, Royal Highness

3. Ellen Datlow

   Author of Snow White, Blood Red, Black Thorn, White Rose, Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

4. T. S. Eliot

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

5. Pablo Neruda

   Author of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, 100 Love Sonnets, The Captain's Verses

6. Annie Dillard

   Author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm, Living by Fiction

7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   Author of Elective Affinities, Italian Journey: 1786-1788, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

8. William Carlos Williams

   Author of Selected Poems, Paterson, In the American Grain

9. Wallace Stevens

   Author of Collected poems, Wallace Stevens : Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America), The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

10. Robert Musil

    Author of The Confusions of Young Törless, Drei Frauen, Diaries : Robert Musil 1899-1942

11. Ezra Pound

    Author of Selected Poems, 1908–1959, ABC of Reading, Guide to Kulchur (New Directions Paperbook, Ndp257)

12. Hermann Broch

    Author of The Death of Virgil, The Sleepwalkers, The Spell

13. Andrew Lang

    Author of The Green Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book

14. Mary Oliver

    Author of A Poetry Handbook, New and Selected Poems: Volume One, Dream Work

15. Arthur Rimbaud

    Author of Complete Works, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat, Illuminations

16. Thomas Bernhard

    Author of The Loser, Wittgenstein's Nephew, Gargoyles

17. Gustave Flaubert

    Author of Three Tales, Bouvard and Pécuchet, Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

18. W.G. Sebald

    Author of The Emigrants, Vertigo, On the Natural History of Destruction

19. W. H. Auden

    Author of Selected Poems, Collected Poems, Auden: Poems

20. Sylvia Plath

    Author of Collected Poems, Ariel, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath