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Francesco Petrarca弗朗西斯科.彼德拉克 An Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists Father of Humanism The first poet laureate桂冠诗人 He widely traveled in Europe and served as an ambassador and has been called “the first tourist” because he traveled just for pleasure, which was he basic reason he climbed Mont Ventoux. During his travels , he collected crumbing Latin manuscripts and was a prime mover原动力 in the recovery of knowledge from writers of Rome and Greece William Shakespeare 1.The world’s preeminent卓越的 dramatist, playwright and poet 2.Surrving works includes plays, sonnets , poem 3.commedy:the middle night’s dream 4. Historical plays :Richardⅱ, Henry ⅳ 5.tragedy: Hamlet , Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe约翰.沃尔沃夫.冯.歌德 One of the most important thinkers思想家 Western culture The originator发明者，创始人 of the concept of Weltliteratur (world literature) A German writer and polymath博学者. His works span the fields of poetry. Drama. Theology, literature, philosophy, humanism人道主义 and science Known as his numerous poems He was one of the key figures of German literature and the movement of Weimar Classicism魏玛古典主义 in the late 18th and early 19th centuries His influence on German philosophy is virtually事实的，实际的 immeasurable不可估量的 William Wordsworth An English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1978 joint publication合著出版物 Lyrical Ballad抒情歌谣集 His magnum opus巨著，代表作 is generally considered to be The Prelude序曲, a semiautobiographical半自传体 poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously作者死后出版的 titled and published , prior to which it was generally known as the poem to Coleridge . Walter Whitman The father of free verse自由诗之父 An American poet, essayist随笔作家, journalist, and humanist人道主义者. He was a part of the transition过渡 between Transcendentalism and Realism, incorporating both views in his works .