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Also Known As Edmund Boulton
Born 1575?
Died 1633?
Notable Works “Englands Helicon”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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Hilaire Belloc
British author
Aguilar, Grace
Grace Aguilar
British author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
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A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Engraved portrait of John Milton by Jacob Houbraken, showing Milton with shoulder-length hair, a lace collar, and period clothing, facing forward in an oval frame.
John Milton
English poet, pamphleteer, and historian
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
William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
English writer
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
English author
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
English poet
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John Donne
English poet
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
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer

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