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Born July 30, 1912 • Rugby • England
Died October 15, 2001 (aged 89) • Oxford • England
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
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Ronald Duncan
British author
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
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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W.S. Gilbert
British playwright
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Sir Edward Howard Marsh
British scholar
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Sir J. C. Squire
British journalist and author
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Uys Krige
South African dramatist
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
Marlowe or not Marlowe?
Christopher Marlowe
English writer
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
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John Marston
British dramatist
Thomas Shadwell, engraving.
Thomas Shadwell
English author
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
Nicholas Rowe, engraving by Remi Parr after the painting by Godfrey Kneller
Nicholas Rowe
English writer and editor
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
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Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet
English writer
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Laurence Binyon
English scholar and poet

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