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Facts

Born April 5, 1837 • London • England
Died April 10, 1909 (aged 72) • England
Notable Works “Atalanta in Calydon” • “Poems and Ballads”
Movement / Style Aestheticism • fleshly school of poetry • Decadent
Subjects Of Study literature

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Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
English author and statesman
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer
Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford
Edward Young
English author
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Robert Browning.
Robert Browning
British poet
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
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Harold Pinter
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Sir Stephen Spender
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Richard Savage
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