Literature, Gypsies in

Literature, Gypsies in
   Many famous authors have put Gypsy characters into their novels and plays or written poems on Gypsy themes. Among them are Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Matthew Arnold, Charles Baudelaire, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Miguel de Cervantes, Arthur Conan Doyle, the Greek writer Drossinis, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Fielding, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oliver Goldsmith, Ernest Hemingway, Ben Jonson, John Keats, Jack Kerouac, Blaze Koneski, D. H. Lawrence, Federico Garcia Lorca, Antonio Machado, Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, Ezra Pound, Alek-sandr Pushkin, Walter Scott, Jules Verne, Tennessee Williams, and Virginia Woolf.

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