| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616) |
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| Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832–1904) |
| Gutierre de Cetina (1518?–1554?) |
| Tommaso Ceva (1648–1737) |
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| Charles Chaillé-Long (1842–1917) |
| Thomas Chalkley (1675–1741) |
| Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour (1827–1896) |
| Alexander Chalmers (1759–1834) |
| George Chalmers (1742–1825) |
| Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) |
| Nathan Henry Chamberlain (1828–1901) |
| Joseph Edgar Chamberlin (1851–1935) |
| Julius Chambers (1850–1920) |
| Robert Chambers (1802–1871) |
| Robert William Chambers (1865–1933) |
| William Chambers (1800–1883) |
| Georges, Marquis de Chambray (1783–1848) |
| Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1740?–1794) |
| Frederick Chamier (1796–1870) |
| Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838) |
| Champfleury (Jules François Félix Husson) (1821–1889) |
| Symphorien Champier (1472?–c. 1535) |
| James Tift Champlin (1811–1882) |
| John Denison Champlin (1834–1915) |
| Elizabeth Williams Champney (1850–1922) |
| Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807–1834) |
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| William Astor Chanler (1867–1934) |
| Edward Channing (1856–1931) |
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| William Ellery Channing (1818–1901) |
| William Henry Channing (1810–1884) |
| Laura Ormiston Chant (1848–1923) |
| Jean Chapelain (1595–1674) |
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| Heman White Chaplin (1847–1924) |
| Jeremiah Chaplin (1813–1886) |
| George Chapman (1559?–1634) |
| John Jay Chapman (1862–1933) |
| Hester Chapone (1727–1801) |
| Charlotte Elizabeth (1790–1846) |
| Jean Baptiste Adolphe Charras (1810–1865) |
| Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805) |
| Alain Chartier (Fifteenth Century) |
| Salmon Portland Chase (1808–1873) |
| Thomas Chase (1827–1892) |
| Philarète Chasles (1798–1873) |
| Armand Marie Jaques Chastenet de Puységur (1751–1825) |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) |
| Jean Baptiste Vivien Châteaubrun (1686–1775) |
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| Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) |
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| Victor Cherbuliez (1829–1899) |
| Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889) |
| Gaspard-Georges Pescow, Marquis de Cherville (1821–1898) |
| Caroline Chesebro’ (1825–1873) |
| George Tomkyns Chesney (1830–1895) |
| Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) |
| G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) |
| Charles Waddell Chestnutt (1858–1932) |
| Henry Chettle (c. 1564–c. 1607) |
| Antoine Léonard de Chézy (1773–1832) |
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| Gabriello Chiabrera (1552–1638) |
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| Vincenz Chiavacci (1847–1916) |
| Francis James Child (1825–1896) |
| Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) |
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| William Chillingworth (1602–1644) |
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| Thomas Holley Chivers (1809–1858) |
| Piotr Chmielowski (1848–1904) |
| Joseph Hodges Choate (1832–1917) |
| Rufus Choate (1799–1859) |
| José Santos Chocano (1875–1934) |
| Aleksander Chodźko (1804–1891) |
| Ignacy Chodźko (1794–1861) |
| Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925) |
| Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell (1837–1915) |
| Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872) |
| Geōrgios Chortatzēs (fl. 1600–1637) |
| Chrétien de Troyes (Twelfth Century) |
| Arne Einar Christiansen (1861–1939) |
| Athanasios Christopoulos (1772?–1847) |
| Friedrich Chrysander (1826–1901) |
| Chrysippus (c. 280–206 B.C.) |
| Manuel Chrysoloras (c. 1355–1415) |
| Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347–407) |
| Emily Chubbuck Judson (Fanny Forrester) (1817–1854) |
| Richard William Church (1815–1890) |
| Charles Churchill (1731–1764) |
| Winston Churchill (1871–1947) |
| Winston Churchill (1874–1965) |
| Ignazio Ciampi (1824–1880) |
| Domenico Ciampoli (1855–1929) |
| Colley Cibber (1671–1757) |
| Maria Luisa Cicci (1760–1794) |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.) |
| Teobaldo Ciconi (1824–1863) |
| Cieco da Ferrara (Fifteenth Century) |
| C. Helvius Cinna |
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| Mary Bucklin Claflin (1825–1896) |
| Louis François Nicolaie Clairville (1811–1879) |
| John Clare (1793–1864) |
| Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon (1609–1674) |
| Jules Claretie (1840–1913) |
| Alexander Clark (1834–1879) |
| Charles Heber Clark (1841–1915) |
| George Hunt Clark (1809–1881) |
| Henry James Clark (1826–1873) |
| Imogen Clark (d. 1956) |
| John Bates Clark (1847–1938) |
| Lewis Gaylord Clark (1808–1873) |
| Willis Gaylord Clark (1808–1841) |
| Charles Cowden Clarke (1787–1877) |
| Edward Daniel Clarke (1769–1822) |
| James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) |
| Helen Archibald Clarke (d. 1926) |
| Hyde Clarke (1815–1895) |
| McDonald Clarke (1798–1842) |
| Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1846–1881) |
| Mary Bayard Clarke (1827–1886) |
| Mary Cowden Clarke (1809–1898) |
| Rebecca Sophia Clarke (1833–1906) |
| Richard Henry Clarke (1827–1911) |
| Samuel Clarke (1675–1729) |
| Isaac Starr Clason (1789–1834) |
| Paul Claudel (1868–1955) |
| Claudian (c. 370–404) |
| Matthias Claudius (1740–1815) |
| H. Clauren (1771–1854) |
| José Clavijo y Fajardo (1726–1806) |
| Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810–1903) |
| Henry Clay (1777–1852) |
| Cleanthes (331–232 B.C.) |
| Jeremiah Clemens (1814–1865) |
| Antoine Clesse (1816–1889) |
| Aaron Cleveland (1744–1815) |
| Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) |
| Henry Clews (1836–1923) |
| Charles Powell Clinch (1797–1880) |
| DeWitt Clinton (1769–1828) |
| Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
| Titus Coan (1801–1882) |
| Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) |
| Irvin Cobb (1876–1944) |
| Joseph Beckham Cobb (1819–1858) |
| Sylvanus Cobb (1823–1887) |
| Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) |
| William Cobbett (1763–1835) |
| Richard Cobden (1804–1865) |
| Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958) |
| Luigia Codémo (1828–1898) |
| John Codman (1814–1900) |
| George Albert Coe (1862–1951) |
| Charles Carleton Coffin (1823–1896) |
| Robert Barry Coffin (“Barry Gray”) (1826–1886) |
| Robert Stevenson Coffin (1797–1827) |
| William Turner Coggeshall (1824–1867) |
| George M. Cohan (1878–1942) |
| Charles-Pierre Colardeau (1732–1776) |
| Adolphine Marie Colban (1814–1884) |
| John William Colenso (1814–1883) |
| Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| Sara Coleridge (1802–1852) |
| Abraham Coles (1813–1891) |
| John Colet (1467?–1519) |
| Louise Revoil Colet (1810–1876) |
| Charles Collé (1709–1783) |
| Camilla Collett (1813–1895) |
| Guillaume Colletet (1598–1659) |
| Jeremy Collier (1650–1726) |
| John Payne Collier (1789–1883) |
| Price Collier (1860–1913) |
| Robert Laird Collier (1837–1890) |
| Jean François Collin d’Harleville (1755–1806) |
| Heinrich Joseph von Collin (1772–1811) |
| John Collins (1742–1808) |
| John Churton Collins (1848–1908) |
| Mortimer Collins (1827–1876) |
| William Collins (1721–1759) |
| William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) |
| Robert Collyer (1823–1912) |
| George Colman the Elder (1732–1794) |
| George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) |
| Vittoria Colonna (1490–1547) |
| Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1848–1914) |
| Arthur Colton (1868–1943) |
| Walter Colton (1797–1851) |
| Padraic Colum (1881–1972) |
| Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (First Century) |
| Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927) |
| George Combe (1788–1858) |
| William Combe (1742–1823) |
| Benjamin Bartis Comegys (1819–1900) |
| Johann Amos Comenius (1592–1670) |
| Philippe de Commines (c. 1447–1511) |
| Commodian (Third Century) |
| Anna Comnena (1083–1153) |
| Auguste Comte (1798–1857) |
| Thomas Jefferson Conant (1802–1891) |
| Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714–1780) |
| Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794) |
| Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934) |
| Confucius (551–479 B.C.) |
| Charles Taber Congdon (1821–1891) |
| Richard Congreve (1818–1899) |
| William Congreve (1670–1729) |
| Ralph Connor (1860–1937) |
| Georg Conrad (1826–1902) |
| Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) |
| Michael Georg Conrad (1846–1927) |
| Robert Taylor Conrad (1810–1858) |
| Hermann Conradi (1862–1890) |
| Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883) |
| Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) |
| Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus) (1847–1885) |
| Katherine Eleanor Conway (1853–1927) |
| Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) |
| Sir William Martin Conway (1856–1937) |
| David Power Conyngham (1840–1883) |
| Eliza Cook (1818–1889) |
| Joseph Cook (1838–1901) |
| George Willis Cooke (1848–1923) |
| John Esten Cooke (1830–1886) |
| Josiah Parsons Cooke (1827–1894) |
| Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816–1850) |
| Philip St. George Cooke (1809–1895) |
| Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892) |
| Thomas Cooke (1703–1756) |
| Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928) |
| Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866–1928) |
| Anne Sheldon Coombs (1858–1890) |
| James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) |
| Peter Cooper (1791–1883) |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813–1894) |
| Thomas Cooper (1805–1892) |
| Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert (1522–1590) |
| Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) |
| François Coppée (1842–1908) |
| Henry Coppée (1821–1895) |
| Antonio Coppi (1783–1870) |
| George Copway (1818–1869) |
| Bénoît Constant Coquelin (1841–1909) |
| Richard Corbet (1582–1635) |
| Édouard Corbiére (1793–1875) |
| Caroline Fairfield Corbin (1835–1918) |
| John Corbin (1870–1959) |
| João Ricardo Cordeiro (1836–1882) |
| Marie Corelli (1855–1924) |
| Corinna (Sixth Century B.C.) |
| Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) |
| Thomas Corneille (1625–1709) |
| Kinahan Cornwallis (1839–1917) |
| Henry Sylvester Cornwell (1831–1886) |
| August Corrodi (1826–1885) |
| Hiram Corson (1828–1911) |
| Charlotte von Cosel (Adelheid von Auer) (1818–1904) |
| Pietro Cossa (1830–1881) |
| Isaäc da Costa (1798–1860) |
| Samuel Coster (1579–1665) |
| Giuseppe Costetti (1834–1928) |
| Rodrigo Cota (Fifteenth Century) |
| Charles Cotin (1604–1682) |
| Madame Cottin (1770–1807) |
| Charles Cotton (1630–1687) |
| John Cotton (1585–1652) |
| Elliott Coues (1842–1899) |
| Pierre de Coulevain (1853–1927) |
| Louis Couperus (1863–1923) |
| Paul Louis Courier (1772–1825) |
| Joanna Courtmans (1811–1890) |
| Victor Cousin (1792–1867) |
| Frank Cowan (1844–1905) |
| Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) |
| William Cowper (1731–1800) |
| Palmer Cox (1840–1924) |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox (1824–1889) |
| Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1818–1869) |
| George Crabbe (1754–1832) |
| Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) |
| Georgiana Marion Craik (1831–1895) |
| Ralph Adams Cram (1863–1942) |
| Karl Gottlieb Cramer (1758–1817) |
| Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) |
| Stephen Crane (1871–1900) |
| Thomas Frederick Crane (1844–1927) |
| Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649) |
| Madame Augustus Craven (Pauline de la Ferronays) (1808–1891) |
| Elizabeth Berkeley, Lady Craven (1750–1828) |
| Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) |
| Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887) |
| Louisa McCartney Crawford (1790–1858) |
| Mary Caroline Crawford (1874–1932) |
| Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777) |
| Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762) |
| Jacobus Jan Cremer (1827–1880) |
| Gonçalves Crespo (1846–1883) |
| Friedrich Karl Kasimir, Baron von Creuz (1724–1770) |
| Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) |
| Davy Crockett (1786–1836) |
| Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860–1914) |
| William Augustus Croffut (1835–1915) |
| Bertha M. Croker |
| John Wilson Croker (1780–1857) |
| Thomas Crofton Croker (1798–1854) |
| David Goodman Croly (1829–1889) |
| George Croly (1780–1860) |
| Jane Cunningham Croly (Jennie June) (1829–1901) |
| Johann Friedrich, Baron von Cronegk (1731–1758) |
| Howard Crosby (1826–1891) |
| William Croswell (1804–1851) |
| Samuel McChord Crothers (1857–1927) |
| Catherine Crowe (1790–1876) |
| Eyre Evans Crowe (1799–1868) |
| Joseph Archer Crowe (1825–1896) |
| William Crowe (1745–1829) |
| John Crowne (1640?–1712) |
| Mary Bradford Crowninshield (1844–1913) |
| Alexander Cruden (1699–1770) |
| Julia Grinnell Storrow Cruger (1848?–1920) |
| Mary Cruger (1834–1908) |
| Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe (1795–1865) |
| Ramón de la Cruz (1731–1794) |
| Ferenc Császár (1807–1858) |
| Gergely Csiky (1842–1891) |
| Vitéz Mihály Csokonai (1773–1805) |
| Juan de la Cueva (1550?–1610?) |
| Richard Cumberland (1732–1811) |
| Maria Susanna Cummins (1827–1866) |
| John William Cunliffe (1865–1946) |
| Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) |
| George Cupples (1822–1891) |
| Jeremiah Curtin (1835–1906) |
| George Ticknor Curtis (1812–1894) |
| George William Curtis (1824–1892) |
| William Eleroy Curtis (1850–1911) |
| Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) |
| Quintus Curtius Rufus (First Century?) |
| Caleb Cushing (1800–1879) |
| Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857–1900) |
| Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842–1933) |
| Astolphe, Marquis de Custine (1790–1857) |
| George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857) |
| Elbridge Jefferson Cutler (1831–1870) |
| Mary Stewart Cutting (1851–1924) |
| Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) |
| Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822–1909) |
| Cynewulf |
| Michał Czajkowski (1804–1886) |
| Gergely Czuczor (1800–1866) |
| Nathan Daboll (1750–1818) |
| Nathan Daboll (1782–1863) |
| Simon Dach (1605–1659) |
| Isaäc da Costa (1798–1860) |
| Barbarina, Lady Dacre (1767–1854) |
| Servaas Dominique Daems (1838–1903) |
| Konrad Neumann Hjelm Dahl (1843–1931) |
| Vladimir Ivanovitch Dal’ (1801–1872) |
| Fredrik August Dahlgren (1816–1895) |
| Carl Fredrik Dahlgren (1791–1844) |
| Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (1825–1898) |
| Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785–1860) |
| Felix Dahn (1834–1912) |
| Alan Dale (1861–1928) |
| Olof von Dalin (1708–1763) |
| Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1822–1912) |
| William Healey Dall (1845–1927) |
| Robert Charles Dallas (1754–1824) |
| Henry Lytton Bulwer, Lord Dalling and Bulwer (1801–1872) |
| Francesco Dall’Ongaro (1808–1873) |
| Sir David Dalrymple (1726–1792) |
| Augustin Daly (1838–1899) |
| Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897) |
| James Dwight Dana (1813–1895) |
| Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) |
| Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882) |
| Dancourt (1661–1725) |
| Samuel Danforth (1666–1727) |
| Philippe de Courcillon, Marquis de Dangeau (1638–1720) |
| Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| Cora Linn Daniels (b. 1852) |
| Grigory Petróvich Danilevsky (1829–1890) |
| Elizabeth Otis Marshall Dannelly (1838–1896) |
| Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) |
