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Born November 1, 1896 • London • England
Died January 20, 1974 (aged 77) • England
Notable Works “Undertones of War”
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
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
English poet
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
A.E. Housman, detail of a drawing by William Rothenstein, 1906; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
A.E. Housman
English scholar and poet
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Thomas Hood, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Hood
British poet
Nicholas Rowe, engraving by Remi Parr after the painting by Godfrey Kneller
Nicholas Rowe
English writer and editor
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
Arthur Symons, tempera painting by R.H. Sauter, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Symons
English poet and critic
William Bowles, engraving by Thomson, first quarter of the 19th century, after a painting by Mullar
William Lisle Bowles
British poet and clergyman
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Joseph Blanco White
Spanish-English writer
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
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Anne Ridler
British writer
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Philip Larkin
British poet
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Aaron Hill
English author
Dodsley, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760; in Dulwich College Picture Gallery, London
Robert Dodsley
English author and publisher
Palgrave, chalk drawing by Samuel Lawrence, 1872; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Francis Turner Palgrave
British author

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