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Famed #UkrainianPoet #MykolaZerov was a gifted #LiteraryScholar #Critic #Translator & #Neoclassicist who defied #SovietRepression of #UkrainianCulture. Unjustly condemned in 1935 to serve 10 yrs at the #SolovkiPrisonCamp, he continued to write politics into his poetry & was executed in 1937. His legacy of scholarly work endures, & led to his #PosthumousRehabilitation in 1958.
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#Poet #Satirist #Critic & #Lexicographer #SamuelJohnson born Lichfield #England 1709, did not write the first dictionary. Celebrated as one of the greatest figures of the 18th-century; admired for his wit, talent, tenacity & intelligence; the legacy of his literary achievements indelibly influenced the modern English Language. #StrandAldwych #Monument #Westminster
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