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Facts

Born December 16, 1717 • Deal • England
Died February 19, 1806 (aged 88) • London • England

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Elizabeth Carter, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Alexander Pope
English author
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
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Thomas Tickell
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Broome, engraving by J.-M. Delattre after a portrait by D. Heins, 18th century
William Broome
British scholar and poet
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John Langhorne
English poet
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Martin Opitz
German poet
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Andrew Lang
British scholar
Frere, John Hookham
John Hookham Frere
English diplomat and writer
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Rex Warner
British writer
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
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Sidney Godolphin
English poet
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William Painter
English author
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Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet
English poet and translator
George Sandys, engraving after a portrait by Cornelius Janssen; frontispiece to Relation of a Journey (1615)
George Sandys
English poet and traveler
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Terence Tiller
British writer
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Jasper Heywood
English priest and poet
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Josuah Sylvester
English writer
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Robert Bly
American author

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