Mikhail Lermontov
Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called “the poet of the Caucasus”, the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin’s death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism
1800s
O. Henry
American short story writer
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (UK: , US: ,French: [ɛdmɔ̃ ʁɔstɑ̃]; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918), a French poet and dramatist associated with neo-romanticism, became best-known for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand’s romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late-nineteenth century. Another of Rostand’s works, Les Romanesques (1894), was …