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Born March 29, 1759 • Aberdeen • Scotland
Died December 10, 1834 (aged 75) • London • England
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Samuel Johnson
English author
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
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Andrew Motion
British poet and author
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Allan Cunningham, detail of a portrait by Henry Room; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Allan Cunningham
Scottish poet
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
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Les Murray
Australian author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
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Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic
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Peter Ackroyd
British author, biographer, critic and scholar
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Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
Arthur Symons, tempera painting by R.H. Sauter, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Symons
English poet and critic
Symonds, John Addington
John Addington Symonds
English writer
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Joseph Blanco White
Spanish-English writer
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Philip Larkin
British poet
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Maurice Baring
British author
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Sara Coleridge
British author

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