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Born May 12, 1812 • Highgate • England
Died January 29, 1888 (aged 75) • San Remo • Italy
Notable Works “A Book of Nonsense” • “The Owl and the Pussy-cat”

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Poet and painter Edward Lear
Landscape work
Lear, Edward: Olive Trees
The owl and the pussy-cat, illustration by Edward Lear from his Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871).
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Paul Nash
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William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Laurence Binyon
English scholar and poet
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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David Jones
English artist and writer
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Robert Browning.
Robert Browning
British poet
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
Self-portrait by John Constable
John Constable
British artist
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William Morris
British artist and author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
Sir Herbert Read.
Sir Herbert Read
British art critic
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
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Kathleen Raine
British writer
Richard Parkes Bonington: Grand Canal, Venice
Richard Parkes Bonington
British painter
Greta Bridge, watercolour by John Sell Cotman, c. 1805; in the British Museum.
John Sell Cotman
British painter
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Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet
English poet

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