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Facts

Born 1559? • England
Died May 12, 1634 • London • England
Notable Works “Bussy d’Ambois” • “Eastward Ho” • “Euthymiae Raptus; or the Teares of Peace” • “Iliad” • “Odyssey”
Movement / Style Jacobean age

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George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
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Thomas Lodge
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Nicholas Udall
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Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
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Alexander Pope
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
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John Marston
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Mihály Babits
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Samuel Johnson
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Christopher Marlowe
English writer
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Thomas Shadwell, engraving.
Thomas Shadwell
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Eric Bentley
American critic, translator, and stage director
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer
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Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet
English writer
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Laurence Binyon
English scholar and poet
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Anne Ridler
British writer
Elizabeth Carter, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Elizabeth Carter
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Thomas May
English scholar

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