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The Literary 100: The Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time: Revised Editio

The Literary 100: The Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time: Revised Edition. In 2008, Daniel S. Burt published a revised edition of his list of the most influential authors which included 25 new writers
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
1
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
2
Homer
Homer
3
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
4
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
5
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
6
James Joyce
James Joyce
7
John Milton
John Milton
8
Virgil
Virgil
9
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
10
Miguel De Cervantes
Miguel De Cervantes
11
Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu
12
Sophocles
Sophocles
13
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
15
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
16
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
17
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
18
T.S. Elliot
T.S. Elliot
19
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
20
George Eliot
George Eliot
21
Euripides
Euripides
22
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
23
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
24
John Keats
John Keats
25
Ovid
Ovid
26
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
27
Du Fu
Du Fu
28
William Blake
William Blake
29
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
30
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
31
Molière
Molière
32
John Donne
John Donne
33
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
34
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
35
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
36
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
37
Henry James
Henry James
38
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
39
Honoré De Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
40
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