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Born	November 28, 1926 • London • England
Died	February 25, 2024 (aged 97) • United Kingdom
Notable Works	“Awake for Mourning” • “Barricades in West Hampstead” • “Enter Solly Gold” • “Ezra” • “Love, Death, and Other Joys” • “Playing Sinatra” • “Shalom Bomb” • “The Dissent of Dominick Shapiro” • “The Dream of Peter Mann” • “The Hamlet of Stepney Green” • “The Odyssey of Samuel Glass”

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

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Peter Redgrove

English poet, novelist, and playwright

Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.

Caroline Norton

British writer

Phillpotts, Eden

Eden Phillpotts

British writer

Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake

English novelist

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Robert Williams Buchanan

English author

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Dannie Abse

Welsh poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist

James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.

James Joyce

Irish author

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish author

Wole Soyinka, 2015

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Portrait of dramatist Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn

English author

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

Polish writer

Dowson, portrait by Charles Conder; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Ernest Dowson

British poet

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Nick Joaquin

Filipino author

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Ama Ata Aidoo

Ghanaian writer

Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke

Henry Brooke

Irish author

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry