Neoclassical writers

François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)

US-British poet (1888–1965)

English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)

English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)

English poet (1688–1744)

17th-century English poet and playwright (1631–1700)

English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672–1719)

German poet, writer and linguist

Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)

Romanian playwright, writer and poet (1852-1912)

Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat

Wallachian-born Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic (1854-1920)

Academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician (1802-1872)

Moldavian polymath (1788-1869)

Romanian politician (1837-1919)

18th Century association of English writers

English-born Bohemian poet (1580s–1612)

Romanian writer, actor, soldier and translator (1800–1880)

Romanian writer/politician (1858-1922)

Romanian writer and scholar

Italian art historian and architect

Italian writer

moldavian-born Imperial Russian and Romanian aristocrat

Perpessicius (; pen name of Dumitru S. Panaitescu, also known as Panait Șt. Dumitru, D. P. Perpessicius and Panaitescu-Perpessicius; October 22, 1891 – March 29, 1971) was a Romanian literary historian and critic, poet, essayist and fiction writer. One of the prominent literary chroniclers of the Romanian interwar period, he stood apart in his generation for having thrown his support behind the modernist and avant-garde currents of Romanian literature. As a theorist, Perpessicius merged the tenets of Symbolism with the pragmatic conservative principles of the 19th century Junimea society, but

Romanian literary critic (1848-1899)

Romanian playwright (1887-1936)

Italian poet (1741-1817)

Romanian journalist and literary critic, also remembered for his work in anthropology, ethnography, sociology and zoology (1875-1951)

moldavian statesman, translator and poet

Italian poet (1695-1762)