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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
philosopher, poet, essayist, diarist, biographer, Unitarian pastor, Christian minister, orator, abolitionist
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
![Complete Works; With a Biographical Introd. and Notes [microform] Volume 9](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11262408-M.jpg)
Luis Alberto Urrea (born 1955)
poet, humanitarian
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
poet, playwright, linguist, translator, musicologist, biographer, judge, poet lawyer, lawyer, historian, literary critic
![Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel: Cantos I-[vi.]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5997955-M.jpg)
![Tales of My Landlord [1st Series]; 4](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12503666-M.jpg)
![Dramatic works of Goethe: comprising Faust [pt. 1] Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Edmont, tr. by Anna Swanwick. And Goetz von Berlichingen, tr. ... Scott, and carefully rev. by Henry G. Bohn](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8587129-M.jpg)
![Marmion. with Intr., Notes, Map, and Glossary, for the Use of Schools, [ed.] by E.E. Morris](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11261220-M.jpg)
![Marmion. with Intr., Notes, Map, and Glossary, for the Use of Schools, [ed.] by E.E. Morris](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11503453-M.jpg)
![Marmion. with Intr., Notes, Map, and Glossary, for the Use of Schools, [ed.] by E.E. Morris](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12016158-M.jpg)
![Marmion. with Intr., Notes, Map, and Glossary, for the Use of Schools, [ed.] by E.E. Morris](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12047122-M.jpg)
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
poet, playwright, literary critic, translator, historian, librettist, book collector, opinion journalist, dramaturge, essayist, bretteur
![The talisman, from the Russ. With other pieces [tr. by E.H. Borrow. In verse]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6177751-M.jpg)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, economist, journalist, radio personality, literary historian
![Gaudier-Brzeska, a memoir [by] Ezra Pound](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5911307-M.jpg)
![Antheil and the Treatise on harmony, with supplementary notes 1927 [Leather Bound]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8768296-M.jpg)
Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
poet, illustrator, animator, producer
![Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! [DVD]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7888286-M.jpg)
![One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish [Paperback] NA](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10709135-M.jpg)
![Prosciutto e uova verdi [ Green Eggs and Ham Italian edition ]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9059891-M.jpg)
![Green Eggs and Ham [Paperback] DR. SEUSS](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10385483-M.jpg)
![The cat in the hat comes back [sound recording]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8321779-M.jpg)
![MR. BROWN CAN MOO CAN YOU [Paperback] [Mar 08, 2018] Dr. Seuss](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11989888-M.jpg)
![Cat In The Hat, The [Paperback] [Aug 05, 2010] SEUSS, DR](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11941984-M.jpg)
![The Cat in the Hat [VHS]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8466557-M.jpg)
![The Cat in the Hat [Paperback] [Aug 24, 2016] Dr. Seuss](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11104730-M.jpg)
Thomas More (1478-1535)
philosopher, historian, theologian, politician, poet, statesperson, poet lawyer, judge, diplomat
![A frutefull pleasaunt, [and] wittie worke, of the beste state of a publique weale, and of the newe yle, called Vtopia: written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson, sometime fellowe of Corpus Christi College in Oxford, and nowe by him at this seconde edition newlie perused and corrected, and also with diuers notes in the margent augmented](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8858299-M.jpg)
Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916)
poet
