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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Reader’s Dictionary of Authors

Raabe to Selden

Wilhelm Raabe (Jacob Corvinus) (1831–1910)
François Rabelais (c. 1490–1553)
Honorat de Bueil de Racan (1589–1670)
Jean Racine (1639–1699)
Louis Racine (1692–1763)
Ann (Ward) Radcliffe (1764–1823)
Carl Christian Rafn (1795–1864)
William Stephen Rainsford (1850–1933)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618)
Walter Raleigh (1861–1922)
James Ralph (d. 1762)
Julian Ralph (1853–1903)
William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1828–1889)
Alfred Rambaud (1842–1905)
Ignacio Ramírez (1818–1879)
Rammohun Roy (1772?–1833)
Allan Ramsay (1686–1758)
Chevalier Ramsay (1686–1743)
David Ramsay (1749–1815)
Pierre Ramus (1515–1572)
Edward Augustus Rand (1837–1903)
James Ryder Randall (1839–1908)
John Randolph (1773–1833)
Sarah Nicholas Randolph (1839–1892)
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886)
Jeremiah Eames Rankin (1828–1903)
Paul de Rapin de Thoyras (1661–1725)
Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736–1794)
Marie Rattazzi (1833–1902)
Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach (1784–1852)
Edward Ravenscroft (1654?–1707)
George Rawlinson (1812–1902)
Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810–1895)
Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820–1869)
François Just-Marie Raynouard (1761–1836)
Angus Bethune Reach (1821–1856)
Opie Read (1852–1939)
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872)
Charles Reade (1814–1884)
John Reade (1837–1919)
William Winwood Reade (1838–1875)
Richard Realf (1832–1878)
Ernst von der Recke (1848–1933)
Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus (1830–1905)
James Redpath (1833–1891)
Oskar von Redwitz (1823–1891)
Myrtle Reed (1874–1911)
Clara Reeve (1729–1807)
Giuseppe Regaldi (1809–1883)
Jean-François Regnard (1655–1709)
Henri de Régnier (1864–1936)
Mathurin Régnier (1573–1613)
Christian Reid (1846–1920)
Mayne Reid (1818–1883)
Thomas Reid (1710–1796)
Thomas Wemyss Reid (1842–1905)
Whitelaw Reid (1837–1912)
Robert Reinick (1805–1852)
Ludwig Rellstab (1799–1860)
Frederic Remington (1861–1909)
Charles de Rémusat (1797–1875)
Madame de Rémusat (1780–1821)
Abel Rémusat (1788–1832)
Ernest Renan (1823–1892)
Agnes Repplier (1855–1950)
Restif de La Bretonne (1734–1806)
Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522)
Alfred von Reumont (1808–1887)
Eduard Reuss (1804–1891)
Fritz Reuter (1810–1874)
Joseph Warren Revere (1812–1880)
Benédict Henry Révoil (1816–1882)
Eben Eugene Rexford (1848–1916)
Marie Roch Louis Reybaud (1799–1879)
Frederic Reynolds (1764–1841)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
James Ford Rhodes (1848–1927)
William Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826)
Sir John Rhys (1840–1915)
Bernardim Ribeiro (1482–1552)
Tomás Ribeiro (1831–1901)
David Ricardo (1772–1823)
Antoine François Riccoboni (1707–1772)
Luigi Riccoboni (1674–1753)
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (1713–1792)
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1870–1942)
George Edward Rice (1822–1861)
Harvey Rice (1800–1891)
James Rice (1843–1882)
Alfred Bate Richards (1820–1876)
Ellen Henrietta Richards (1842–1911)
Laura Elizabeth Richards (1850–1943)
Abby Sage Richardson (1837–1900)
Albert Deane Richardson (1833–1869)
Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
Christian Richardt (1831–1892)
Jules Émile Richebourg (1833–1898)
Armand Jean du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (1585–1642)
Jean Richepin (1849–1926)
Legh Richmond (1772–1827)
Anna Smith Rickey (1827–1858)
Carl Fredrik Ridderstad (1807–1886)
William Henry Rideing (1853–1918)
William Pett Ridge (1859–1930)
John Clark Ridpath (1840–1900)
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823–1897)
Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer (1774–1845)
Jacob August Riis (1849–1914)
James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)
Bernard Jacques Joseph Maximilien de Ring (1799–1873)
Max Ring (1817–1901)
Ottavio Rinuccini (1562–1621)
Francisco de Rioja (1583?–1659)
Roger Riordan (1848–1904)
George Ripley (1802–1880)
William Rishanger (1250?–1312?)
Richard Voorhees Risley (1874–1904)
Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1819–1870)
Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919)
Joseph Ritson (1752–1803)
Frédéric Louis Ritter (1834–1891)
Heinrich Ritter (1791–1869)
Antoine Rivarol (1753–1801)
Hallie Erminie Rives-Wheeler (1876–1956)
Gustave Rivet (1848–1936)
Henri-Laurent Rivière (1827–1883)
José Rizal (1861–1896)
Robert of Gloucester (fl. 1260–1300)
Robert Roberthin (1600–1648)
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943)
Emma Roberts (1794?–1840)
Morley Roberts (1857–1942)
Samuel Roberts (1763–1848)
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853)
James Burton Robertson (1800–1877)
Thomas William Robertson (1829–1871)
William Robertson (1721–1793)
Edward Robins (1862–1943)
Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857–1944)
Charles Seymour Robinson (1829–1899)
Edith Robinson (b. 1858)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
Frederick William Robinson (1830–1901)
Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867)
Jane Robinson
Lennox Robinson (1886–1958)
Mary Robinson (1758–1800)
Therese Albertine Luise (von Jakob) Robinson (1797–1870)
Antonin Roche (1813–1899)
James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908)
Regina Maria Roche (1764?–1845)
Victor Henri Rochefort (1831–1913)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680)
Marc Antoine Jacques Rochon de Chabannes (1730–1800)
Édouard Rod (1857–1910)
Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805–1875)
Sir James Rennell Rodd (1858–1941)
Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898)
Alexander Rodger (1784–1846)
José Enrique Rodó (1871–1917)
Azel Stevens Roe (1798–1886)
Edward Payson Roe (1838–1888)
Roger of Hoveden (fl. 1174–1201)
Henry Rogers (1806–1877)
James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1823–1890)
Robert Rogers (1731–1795)
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855)
Henri de Rohan (1579–1638)
Jaume Roig (c. 1478)
Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla (1607–1648)
Madame Roland (1754–1793)
William James Rolfe (1827–1910)
Amédée Rolland (1829–1868)
Romain Rolland (1866–1944)
Georg Rollenhagen (1542–1609)
Hermann Rollett (1819–1904)
Ambroise Lucien Rollin (1692–1749)
Charles Rollin (1661–1741)
André Rollinat (1741–1793)
Maurice Rollinat (1846–1903)
Alice Wellington Rollins (1847–1897)
Louis Charles Reparat Geneviève Octave Romey (1804–1874)
Auguste Romieu (1800–1855)
Antonin François Rondelet (1823–1893)
Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585)
Charles-Philippe Ronsin (1751–1794)
Henry Edward Rood (1867–1954)
Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1829–1906)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
George Frederick Root (1820–1895)
John Codman Ropes (1836–1899)
Nestor Roqueplan (1804–1870)
Otto Roquette (1824–1896)
Adrien Rouquette (1813–1887)
Salvatore Rosa (1615–1673)
Juan de la Rosa González (1820–1886)
Thomas Roscoe (1791–1871)
William Roscoe (1753–1831)
Earl of Roscommon (1633?–1685)
Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929)
Peter Rosegger (1843–1918)
Baron George de Rosen (1805–1860)
Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz (1805–1879)
Hugo Rosenthal-Bonin (1840–1897)
Constantin Rosetti (1816–1885)
Joseph Bernard Rosier (1804–1880)
Giovanni Rosini (1776–1855)
Carlo de Rosmini (1758–1827)
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797–1855)
Joseph de Rosny (1771–1814)
Alexander Ross (1699–1784)
Clinton Ross (1861–1920)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
Gabriele Rossetti (1783–1854)
William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919)
Ernesto Rossi (1829–1896)
John Christopher Rost (1717–1765)
Edmond Rostand (1868–1918)
Eugène Rostand (1843–1915)
Vincent Rota (1703–1785)
Charles Édouard Joseph Rotalier (1804–1849)
Lucas Rotgans (1645–1710)
Jean Rotrou (1609–1650)
Carl von Rotteck (1775–1840)
Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745–1794)
Michel Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont (1781–1840)
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760–1836)
Joseph Roumanille (1818–1891)
Louis Roumieux (1829–1894)
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1670–1741)
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
Pierre Rousseau (1716–1785)
James Rousseau (1797–1849)
Camille Félix Michel Rousset (1821–1892)
John Frederick Rowbotham (1859–1925)
Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718)
Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762–1824)
Just Jean Étienne Roy (1794–1871?)
Pierre Charles Roy (1683–1764)
Josiah Royce (1855–1916)
Alphonse Royer (1803–1875)
Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866)
Heinrich Rückert (1823–1875)
Rūdakī (Tenth Century)
Jaufré Rudel (Twelfth Century)
Lope de Rueda (d. 1565)
Giovanni Ruffini (1807–1881)
Arnold Ruge (1802–1880)
Juan Ruiz (active 1343)
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza (c. 1580–1639)
Claude Carloman de Rulhière (1735–1791)
Count Rumford (1753–1814)
Jalāl-ad-dīn Rūmī (1207–1273)
Karl Friedrich Ludwig Felix von Rumohr (1785–1843)
Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877)
Bertha Runkle (1879–1958)
John Ruskin (1819–1900)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)
Charles Edward Russell (1860–1941)
A. E.” (George William Russell) (1867–1935)
Irwin Russell (1853–1879)
William Clark Russell (1844–1911)
Sir William Howard Russell (1820–1907)
Claudius Rutilius Numatianus (Fifth Century)
Abram Joseph Ryan (1838–1886)
Viktor Rydberg (1828–1895)
Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906)
Duque de Rivas, Angel de Saavedra (1791–1865)
Antonio de Saavedra y Guzmán (fl. 1599)
Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (1584–1648)
Joseph Sabin (1821–1881)
Franco Sacchetti (c. 1330–c. 1400)
Leopold Sacher-Masoch (1835–1895)
Hans Sachs (1494–1576)
Julius Sachs (1832–1897)
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706)
José Antonio Saco (1797–1879)
Sa’dī (c. 1213–1291)
Sæmundar the Learned (Twelfth Century)
Pavel Josef Šafárik (1795–1861)
Gabriel Sagard (Seventeenth Century)
Marc Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661)
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869)
Saint-Évremond (1613–1703)
Mellin de Saint-Gelais (1491–1558)
Marco de Saint-Hilaire (d. 1887)
Joseph Xavier Boniface Saintine (1798–1865)
Bayle St. John (1822–1859)
James Augustus St. John (1795–1875)
Percy Bolingbroke St. John (1821–1889)
Jean-François de Saint-Lambert (1716–1803)
Saint-Marc Girardin (1801–1873)
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814)
Charles Irénée Castel, Abbé de Saint-Pierre (1658–1743)
César Richard, Abbé de Saint-Réal (1639–1692)
George Saintsbury (1845–1933)
Claude Henri, Count de Saint-Simon (1760–1825)
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675–1755)
Jacques Benjamin Maximilien, Count de Saint-Victor (1772–1858)
Paul Binsse, Count de Saint-Victor (1827–1881)
George Augustus Henry Sala (1828–1895)
George Sale (1697?–1736)
Sallust (c. 86–c. 34/35 B.C.)
Constance de Salm-Dyck (1767–1845)
Edgar Evertson Saltus (1855–1921)
Francis Saltus Saltus (1849–1889)
Mikhail Saltykov (Shchedrin) (1826–1889)
Albert Victor Samain (1858–1900)
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831–1917)
Katharine Abbott Sanborn (1839–1917)
George Sand (1804–1876)
Mrs. Henry Roscoe Sandbach (1812–1852)
Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau (1811–1883)
Edward Sanford (1805–1876)
Salvador Sanfuentes (1817–1860)
Charles Sangster (1822–1893)
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912)
George Santayana (1863–1952)
Iñigo López de Mendoza, Marques de Santillana (1398–1458)
Moritz Gottlieb Saphir (1795–1858)
Sappho (fl. c. 610–580 B.C.)
Francisque Sarcey (1827–1899)
Victorien Sardou (1831–1908)
Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927)
Epes Sargent (1813–1880)
Nathan Sargent (1794–1875)
Winthrop Sargent (1825–1870)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811–1888)
Adelaide Kemble Sartoris (1814–1879)
Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy (1807–1880)
Frederick Saunders (1807–1902)
Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861–1947)
Thomas Marie François Sauvage (1794–1877)
John Savage (1828–1888)
Minot Judson Savage (1841–1918)
Richard Henry Savage (1846–1903)
George Francis Savage-Armstrong (1845–1906)
Nicolas Savary (1788–1788)
Friedrich Karl von Savigny (1779–1861)
Lodovico Vittorio Savioli (1729–1804)
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498)
Leicester Ambrose Sawyer (1807–1898)
John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887)
Saxo Grammaticus (d. c. 1204)
Jean Baptiste Say (1767–1832)
Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933)
Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609)
Julius Scaliger (1484–1558)
Paul Scarron (1610–1660)
Adolph Friedrich von Schack (1815–1894)
Philip Schaff (1819–1893)
Sophus Schandorph (1836–1901)
Robert Haven Schauffler (1879–1964)
Leopold Schefer (1784–1862)
Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826–1886)
Maximilian Schele de Vere (1820–1898)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854)
Maximilian Gottfried von Schenkendorf (1783–1817)
Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer (1815–1889)
Wilhelm Scherer (1841–1886)
Johannes Scherr (1817–1886)
F. C. S. Schiller (1864–1937)
Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805)
August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767–1845)
Friedrich von Schlegel (1772–1829)
Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721–1793)
Johann Elias Schlegel (1719–1749)
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834)
Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890)
Friedrich Christoph Schlosser (1776–1861)
Schmid, Ferdinand von (1823–1888)
Heinrich Julian Schmidt (1818–1886)
Maximilian Schmidt (1832–1919)
Max Schneckenburger (1819–1849)
Louis Schneider (1805–1878)
Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931)
Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865)
Karl Schönherr (1867–1943)
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
James Schouler (1839–1920)
Olive Schreiner (1855–1920)
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739–1791)
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780–1860)
Christoph Bernhard Levin Schücking (1814–1883)
Eduard Schulz (1813–1842)
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747–1800)
Ernst Konrad Friedrich Schulze (1789–1817)
Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808–1883)
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Jacob Gould Schurman (1854–1942)
Carl Schurz (1829–1906)
Eugene Schuyler (1840–1890)
Gustav Schwab (1792–1850)
Marie Sophie Schwartz (1819–1894)
Frederick Schwatka (1849–1892)
Albert Schwegler (1819–1857)
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1856–1928)
Clinton Scollard (1860–1932)
Alexander Scott (1525?–1584?)
Andrew Scott (1757–1839)
Clement Scott (1841–1904)
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947)
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944)
John Reed Scott (1869–1942)
Leroy Scott (1875–1929)
Lady Scott (1784–1857)
Michael Scott (Thirteenth Century)
Patrick Scott (Nineteenth Century)
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
William Bell Scott (1811–1890)
Augustin Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)
Frank Kimball Scribner (1866–1935)
Horace Elisha Scudder (1838–1902)
Vida Dutton Scudder (1861–1954)
Georges de Scudéry (1601–1667)
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701)
Charles Sealsfield (1793–1864)
Laura Redden Searing (Howard Glyndon) (1840–1923)
Molly Elliot Seawell (1860–1916)
Joannes Secundus (1511–1536)
Publius Pomponius Secundus (First Century)
Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719–1797)
Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1873–1935)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867)
Sir Charles Sedley (1639–1701)
Henry Sedley (1835–1899)
Sir John Robert Seeley (1834–1895)
Howard Seely (1856–1894)
Julius Hawtry Seelye (1824–1895)
Berthold Seemann (1825–1871)
Anne Moncure Crane Seemüller (1838–1872)
Louis Philippe, Comte de Ségur (1753–1830)
Philippe Paul, Comte de Ségur (1780–1873)
Victor Séjour (1817–1874)
John Selden (1584–1654)