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poets who wrote fantasy
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Suzette Haden Elgin
Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015)

linguist, poet

  • University of California, San Diego, California State University, Chico

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Native Tongue
Earthsong
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
The Ozark trilogy
Twelve fair kingdoms
Science Fiction A to Z
The Judas Rose
The gentle art of verbal self-defense
Genderspeak
Great Science Fiction
The last word on the gentle art of verbal self-defense
You can't say that to me!
The gentle art of communicating with kids
Success with the gentle art of verbal self-defense
Language Imperative
The grandmother principles
More on the gentle art of verbal self-defense
The grand jubilee
The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense at Work
What is linguistics?
The Science fictional olympics
Staying well with the gentle art of verbal self-defense
How to disagree without being disagreeable
Star Anchored, Star Angered
Try to Feel It My Way
How to turn the other cheek and still survive in today's world
The gentle art of written self-defense letter book
Businessspeak
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1979
And then there'll be fireworks
More Verbal Self-Defense
Communipath Worlds
Yonder Comes Other (Daw Collectors Book, No 663)
A celebration of Ozark English
Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense for Business Success
Pouring down words
Language In Emergency Medicine
At the Seventh Level
The communipaths
Gentle Art of Communicating - E-book
A primer of transformational grammar for rank beginners
Peacetalk 101
Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense/Workbook
Earthsong
Judas Rose
You hua hao hao shuo
Instructor's manual, What is linguistics?
Third Dictionary & Grammar of Láadan
Native Tongue
A first dictionary and grammar of Láadan
Hands on
Language Imperative
The gentle art of verbal self-defense
Growing Civilized Kids in a Savage World
The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense for Parents & Kids
Language in Law Enforcement
The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense for Parents and Teenagers
Der Q-Faktor
Mastering the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen (born 1956)

journalist, poet

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Virginia

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Ellipse of uncertainty
Dreamlives of Debris
Tonguing the zeitgeist
Live from earth
Circus of the mind in motion
Lolita
Freaknest
10:01
Sewing shut my eyes
Nietzsche's kisses
Field guide to the grizzly bear
Girl imagined by chance
Anxious Pleasures
William Gibson
Rebel Yell
Time Famine
Burnt
10
Calendar of regrets
Scherzi, I Believe
Head In Flames
The Future of Narrative
William Gibson (Starmont Reader's Guide no. 58)
Theories of Forgetting
Architectures of possibility
The girl with red hair
Hideous Beauties
Surfing tomorrow
Damon Knight
Damon Knight (1922-2002)

literary critic, journalist, editor, critic, poet

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The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. A 30-year retrospective
The golden road
Giants
Tomorrow's children
Humpty Dumpty
Damon Knight SF Gateway Omnibus
The world and Thorinn
The man in the tree
Humpty Dumpty
The dark side
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
Galaxy
Science Fiction of the forties
Supermen
Science fact/fiction
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)
Fifty short science fiction tales
The Second Omni book of science fiction
The man in the tree
Why do birds
The Future in Question
Time Waits For Winthrop
Happy Endings
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two
Beyond the barrier
A pocketful of stars
Laughing Space
One side laughing
The Seventh Galaxy Reader
In search of wonder
A Century of Science Fiction
Three novels: Rule golden, Natural state, [and] The dying man
The world and Thorinn
Isaac Asimov presents the golden age of science fiction. Sixth Series
A science fiction argosy
The observers
Far out
Creating short fiction
The Clarion awards
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 22 (1960)
Far out
Dimension X
TV 2000
A for Anything
The Last Man on Earth
A century of great short science fiction novels
The Futurians
Two novels
Off centre
Nebula Award Stories
Orbit 14
In Search of Wonder
Cosmic Stories, March 1941
The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
Orbit 10
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 15 (1953)
Orbit 15
First voyages
Orbit 16
Damon Knight's Orbit 12
Out of this world
The other foot
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950)
Western classics from the great pulps
Orbit 16
Late Knight edition
Space Science Fiction Super Pack
Worlds to come
CV
Damon Knight's orbit 7
A for anything
Best stories from Orbit, volumes 1-10
Thirteen French science-fiction stories
Hell's pavement
One hundred years of science fiction
A reasonable world
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 (1959)
A century of great short science fiction novels
Orbit 3
In deep
Science Fiction of the Thirties
Better than one
Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940
A Shocking Thing
Orbit 5
Perchance to Dream
Turning on
Charles Fort
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1964
The dark side
Cities of wonder
DimensionX
Tomorrow and Tomorrow; Ten Tales of the Future,
Masters of Evolution / Fire in the Heavens
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 (1954)
Hell's Pavement
The best of Damon Knight
Beyond tomorrow
Charles Fort: prophet of the unexplained
Turning points
Beyond the Barrier
Perchance to dream
Tomorrow X 4
Why dobirds
Worlds to Come
Creating short fiction
Turning on
Damon Knight's Collection 1
World without children and The Earth Quarter
Orbit 21
Towards Infinity
Cv
Orbit 17
Orbit
Perchance to dream
First contact
Orbit Fifteen
Reasonable World
Earth Quarter & Envoy to New Worlds
Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers
Cities of wonder
The best of Damon Knight
Tomorrow and tomorrow
Orbit Twenty
Orbit 19
Orbit Eighteen
Best Damon Knight
Worlds to come
Web of the Worlds & Rule Golden
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction
Le pavé de l'enfer
Toward infinity
The Worshippers
Off centre
A century of science fiction
Orbit Two
Science fiction of the thirties
Nebula award stories
The World and Thorinn
Mind Switch
Beyond the Barrier
A pocketful of stars
Turning On
World Without Children and the Earth Quarter
Orbit
Special Delivery by Damon Knight, Science Fiction, Adventure
First Contact
In Deep
Damon Knight SF Omnibus (eBook)
The World and Thorin
Westerns of the 40's : classics from the great pulps
NEBULAS AWARD STORIES 1
The Other Foot
Orbit 9
Orbit
Far Out
Off Centre
Beyond tomorrow
DARK SIDE, THE.
Cities of wonder
Nine new SF stories especially written for Orbit 4 (A Berkley medallion book)
Hell's Pavement
Orbit: No. 4
Humpty Dumpty
Orbit 2
Futurians
Man in the Tree
Los mundos
Orbit Thirteen
Orbit 11
The dark side
Three Novels
5 Unearthly Visions
Voorbij De Barriere
Why Do Birds
Double Meaning
Cv
A century of science fiction
Beyond the Barrier
The Man In The Tree
Toward Infinity
Turning Points
In Deep
Orbit 6
In Search of Wonder
Perchance to Dream
The Other Foot
Isaac Asimov Präsentiert Sagenwelt Der Fantasy
Special Delivery by Damon Knight, Science Fiction, Adventure
The Metal Smile
Special Delivery
The World and Thorinn
for Anything
Natural State
A century of science fiction;
Damon Knight's collection
Special Delivery
In Search of Wonder
Hell's cartographers : some personal histories of science fiction writers
Tout et n'importe quoi
Turning Points
Analogue Men
Damon Knight's Collection 4. Neue Science Fiction Stories
Toward Infinity
Doorway to Kal-Jmar
Dimension X
Observers
Tomorrow X 4. A Stellar Quartet of Short Science Fiction Novels
The Mote in Time's Eye
Rule Golden
Mind switch
De 10 Sterkste Korte Verhalen Van Damon Knight
Orbit
Thirteen French science-fiction stories
Nebula Award Stories 1965
Die Analog-Maschine
Worshippers
The Dark Side
Elsewhere X 3
The Metal Smile
Better Than One
The Shape of things
Pocketful of Stars
Charles Fort
DARK SIDE, THE.
The Worshippers by Damon Knight, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
First Contact
Worshippers
Turning on
First Flight
The Best of Damon Knight
CITIES OF WONDER
Special Delivery
A Century of Science Fiction
Three novels
Reasonable World
Passée la barrière du temps
The people maker
The goldenroad
Computer streiten nicht
Panne in der Hölle
Rule Golden and Double Meaning
Ne vivez pas dans le passé
Les Univers
Nebula Award stories
LE PAVÉ DE L'ENFER
Nebula award series, 1965
Monad
A for anything
Lafferty in Orbit
Towards infinity
First flight
A pocketful of stars
Yet more Penguin science fiction
Orbit 13
Rule Golden and Other Stories
Nebula Award Stories 1965
Far out
Three novels
Worlds to come
Natural State And Other Stories
Zweibeiner sehen dich an
The best of Damon Knight
Analogue men
J. Rodolfo Wilcock
J. Rodolfo Wilcock (1919-1978)

linguist, poet, translator, journalist, literary critic, engineer

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Antología de la literatura fantástica
The Temple of Iconoclasts
El Templo Etrusco
L' abominevole donna delle nevi
La sinagoga degli iconoclasti
Italienisches Liederbuch
El Ingeniero
Persecución de las musas menores
Los DOS Indios Alegres
La Sinagoga de Los Iconoclastas
Parsifal
Libro de poemas y canciones ..
L' ingegnere
Il libro dei mostri
Le chaos
El caos
Le nozze di Hitler e Maria Antonietta nell'inferno
Il reato di scrivere
I due allegri indiani
Ensayos de poesía lírica
Il tempio etrusco
El delito de escribir
La Synagogue des iconoclastes
Lo stereoscopio dei solitari
Le stéréoscope des solitaires
El Estereoscopio De Los Solitarios
Sexto
Frau Teleprocu
La Boda de Hitler y Maria Antonieta en el Infierno (Emece Cruz del Sur)
Teatro inédito
Traidores, Los
Sexto
Jane Roberts
Jane Roberts (1929-1984)

poet, psychic

  • Skidmore College

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Emir's education in the proper use of magical powers
The Oversoul Seven trilogy
Earth invaded (Home team advantage / In the arena/ Pattern / Three times around)
The Seth material
How to develop your ESP power
Seth Speaks
The coming of Seth
The 'unknown' reality
Adventures in consciousness
The Personal Sessions
The afterdeath journal of an American philosopher
Nature of the psyche
The education of Oversoul Seven
You'll find the magic
Überseele Sieben
Dreams, "evolution", and value fulfillment
Dreams, "evolution", and value fulfillment
ESP power
If we live again, or, Public magic and private love
Anthony Hope
Anthony Hope (1863-1933)

barrister, poet lawyer

  • University of Oxford, St John's School, Leatherhead

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Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers--Volume Eight
Phroso
Sophy of Krovonia : a novel
Phroso
The Dolly dialogues
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Secret of the Tower
Memories and notes
Simon Dale
A Man of Mark
Frivolous Cupid
Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale
Five Classic Adventure Novels
Sophy of Kravonia: A Novel
The Indiscretion of the Duchess
Simon Dale
sport Royal
A cut and a kiss
Double Harness
The god in the car
Pilkerton's Peerage: A Comedy in Four Acts
The Chronicles of Count Antonio
Half a Hero
The new (German) testament
The Indiscretion of the Duchess (Being a Story Concerning Two Ladies, a Nobleman, and a Necklace)
Quisanté
Quisanté
Sophy of Kravonia
Father Stafford
A Change of Air
The Heart of Princess Osra
The prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau
The adventure of the Lady Ursula
Comedies of courtship
Sport royal
Phroso
Helena\'s Path
Why Italy is with the allies
A servant of the public
Man of Mark
The new (German) Testament
Fourth Classic Thriller Collection
Militarism
Frivolous Cupid
Phraso
The Secret of the Tower
Mrs. Maxon protests
Helena's Path
The new (German) testament
The Heart of Princess Osra
The heart of Princess Osra
Sophy of Kravonia
Captain Dieppe
Phroso
A change of air
Tristram of Blent (An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House)
Heart of Princess Osra
Phroso
The Woodlanders. With a Map of Wessex. The Wessex Novels. Volume VIII
Rupert of Hentzau [by] Anthony Hope [pseud.] being the sequel to a story by the same writer, entitled The prisoner of Zenda
Dialogue
The king's mirror
The god in the car
The great Miss Driver
The lady of the pool
A young man's year
Love's Logic
Servant of the Public
OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 3
Four Feathers
Comedies of Courtship
Great Miss Driver
Half a Hero
Captain Dieppe
Service de la Reine
Frivolous Cupid
The intrusions of Peggy
Helena's Path
Captain Dieppe
Essential Anthony Hope Collection (15 Books)
Father Stafford :A Lover's fate and a friend's Counsel
Frivolous Cupid
Tales of Two People
Indiscretion of the Duchess
Sport royal, and other stories
Indiscretion of the Duchess
Heart of Princess Osra
Half a Hero
Comedies of courtship
Sports Royal and Other Stories
Sophy of Kravonia
Captain Dieppe
Sophy of Kravonia
Half a Hero
Man of Mark
Muchos amigos o un amo?
Stories by English Authors
Tales of Two People
Indiscretion of the Duchess
Secret of the Tower
Mr. Witt's Widow
Mrs. Maxon Protests
Comedies of Courtship
Secret of the Tower
Heart of Princess Osra
Captain Dieppe
Comedies of Courtship
Great Miss Driver
Mr. Witt's Widow
Beaumaroy Home from the Wars
Second String
Prisoner of Zend
Helena's Path
Half a Hero a Novel
Heart of Princess Osra
Rupert of Hentzau
The Decree Of Duke Deodonato
Simon Dale
The Prisoner of Zelda
Dialogues of the Day
The Philosopher In The Apple Orchard
Heart of Princess Osra : (Aberdeen Classics Collection)
Frivolous Cupid
Father Stafford
Phroso a Romance
Phroso
Comedies of Courtship
Change of Air
Mrs Maxon Protests
The Great Miss Driver
Father Stafford
Beaumaroy Home From the Wars
Peguin Readers 5
Father Stafford - Large Print Edition
Phroso A Romance
Phroso
Man of Mark
Service de la Reine Illustree
The adventure of Lady ursula
Frivolous Cupid - Original Edition
The Four Feathers
***RE-PRINT*** A servant of the public
Father Stafford
Tales of Two People
God in the Car
Comedies of Courtship
Heart of Princess Osra Illustrated
Beaumaroy Home from the Wars
Change of Air
Comedies of Courtship
Lucinda
A Man of Mark
Change of Air
The Curate Of Poltons
Tales of Two People
The Intrusions of Peggy.by Anthony Hope (Classics)
Phroso
Intrusions of Peggy
Sophy of Kravonia
A Change of Air: Large Print
Simon Dale
Man of Mark
Comedies of Courtship
Quisanté
Change of Air
Simon Dale
Prisoner of Zenda
THE CHRONICLES OF COUNT ANTONIO.
The Prisoner of Zenda 1968
Sophy of Kravonia
Frivolous Cupid
The Prisoner of Zenda (International Collectors Library)
The Secret of the Tower
Phroso
The Prisoner of Zenda (Illustrated)
Second String
Phroso
Heart of Princess Osra
Quisanté
Helena's path
The intrusions of Peggy
Change of Air
Sophy of Kravonia a Novel
Intrusions of Peggy
Secret of the Tower
ThePrisonerofZendaIllustrate
Love's logic
Mrs. Maxon Protests
The god in the car
Tales of Two People
Indiscretion of the Duchess
The Wheel Of Love
Quisante
Half a Hero
God in the Car
Quisante
Sophy of Kravonia
Heart of Princess Osra
Heart of Princess Osra
Half a Hero
Chronicles of Count Antonio
Servant of the Public
Half a Hero
Frivolous Cupid
Frivolous Cupid
Heart of Princess
Half a Hero
Sport Royal and Other Stories
Simon Dale
Plpr5
Zendako presoa
Change of Air
Simon Dale by Hawkins, Anthony Hope, Sir
Mr. Witt's widow
A change of air and A man of mark
Quisante
Phroso
Heart of Princess Osra Illustrated
Phroso
Helena's Path
Simon Dale
Phroso
Prisoner of Zenza
Heart of Princess Osra
Father Stafford
Measurement and Monitoring
Heart of Princess Osra
Tales of Two people. . by
Intrusions of Peggy
Simon Dale
Helena's Path
Half a Hero
Heart of Princess Osra
The Dolly dialogues and Comedies of courtship
Second string
The chronicles of Count Antonio
Sport Royal
Phroso, Large-Print Edition
Phroso
Helena's Path
Quisanté
Captain Dieppe
Chronicles of Count Antonio
Helena's Path
The chronicles of Count Antonio by Anthony Hope
Servant of the Public
Quisanté
The Prisoner of Lenda
The secret of the tower
The Intrusions of Peggy
7 Best Short Stories by Anthony Hope
Quisante
Impressions d'un touriste en France
Prisoner of Zenda Ruppert of Hentzau
Indiscretion of the Duchess
Man of Mark
The Great Miss Driver
Secret of the Tower
Prisoner of Zenda : (Dover Thrift Editions)
Chronicles of Count Antonio
Adventure of Lady Ursula
God in the Car
Tales Of Two People
The Great Miss Driver.by Anthony Hope
Prisoner of Zenda Annotated
Lucinda
A servant of the public
God in the Car
Prisoner of Zenza
Change of Air
Heart of Princess Osra
Phroso a Romance
Second String
Lucinda
Comedies of Courtship
ALS
Captain Dieppe
Change of Air
The Indiscretion of the Duchess
The Heart of Princess Osra, etc.
Beaumaroy Home from the Wars
Father Stafford
Change of Air
Comedies of Courtship
A Change of Air
Sport Royal and Other Stories
Intrusions of Peggy
Man of Mark
Secret of the Tower
Change of Air
Helena's Path
Indiscretion of the Duchess
Prisoner of Zend
Simon Dale
Tales of Two People
Sport Royal
Beaumaroy home from the wars
Heart of Princess Osra
Pilkerton's peerage
Beaumaroy Home from the Wars
Sophy of Kravonia
Memories and Notes
Heart of Princess Osra
Chronicles of Count Antonio
The secret of the tower
Mr. Witt's widow
The Dolly dialogues
Father Stafford
The god in the car
The Indiscretion of the Duchess, Being a Story Concerning Two Ladies, a Nobleman, and a Necklace
Works of Anthony Hope
Heart of Princess Osra
Quisante
A man of mark
Heart of Princess Osra
The indiscretion of the duchess
Lu gong mi shi
Phroso
Helena's path
In this valley
Father Stafford
Zengda de qiu ren
Tales of two people
A young man's year
Frivolous Cupid (The Works of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (13 Volumes))
...ha-Shavui mi-Tsendah
Anthony Hope Omnibus
Sophy of Kravonia. --
The god in the car
Little tiger
The great Miss Driver
Xinulinna xiao zhuan
Phroso
Frivolous Cupid
Mr. Witt's Widow
The chronicles of Count Antonio
The chronicles of Count Antonio
The great Miss Driver
Xinulinnuo xiao zhuan
Father Stafford
Phroso
A man of mark
Lucinda
The intrusions of Peggy
Tristram of Blent
Mr. Witt's widow
Simon Dale
Robert Nichols
Robert Nichols (1893-1944)

war poet, playwright, poet

  • Winchester College, University of Oxford

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Fantastica
Ardours and endurances
The assault and other war poems from "Ardours and endurances"
The assault
Aurelia & other poems
The budded branch
Wings over Europe
Ardours and endurances ... A faun's holiday ... Poems and phantasies
Invocation
The smile of the sphinx
Anthology of war poetry, 1914-1918
Invocation & peace celebration, hymn for the British peoples
Under the yew
Fisbo, or, The looking-glass loaned
Invocation & peace celebration
Such was my singing
A Spanish triptych
Robert Nichols
Twenty below
... Guilty souls
Invocation & peace celebration, hymn for the British peoples
Invocation
Fantastica
Aurelia & other poems
Ardours and endurances
Twenty below
Aurelia & other poems
Ardours and endurances
Guilty souls
Anthology of war poetry, 1914-1918
Fisbo
Anne Reeve Aldrich
Anne Reeve Aldrich (1866-1892)

librettist, poet

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A Village Ophelia and Other Stories
The Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love
The feet of love
The rose of flame
A Village Ophelia and Other Stories
Songs about life, love and death
Gabriel Lusk
A village Ophelia
Nadine and other poems
Songs about life, love and death