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Also Known As Sir Andrew Peter Motion
Born October 26, 1952 (age 74) • London • England
Title / Office poet laureate (1999-2009)
Awards And Honors Costa Book Awards (1993)
Notable Works “The New World” • “The Pleasure Steamers”
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
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
English author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British 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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Maurice Baring
British author
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Peter Ackroyd
British author, biographer, critic and scholar
Symonds, John Addington
John Addington Symonds
English writer
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Alexander Chalmers
Scottish author and editor
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
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William Morris
British artist and author
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon
Northern Irish poet
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
British author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
Portrait of William Michael Rossetti by Sir William Rothenstein, oil on canvas, 1909; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Michael Rossetti
English art critic
Allan Cunningham, detail of a portrait by Henry Room; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Allan Cunningham
Scottish poet
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V.S. Pritchett
British writer

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