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Born July 28, 1844 • England
Died June 8, 1889 (aged 44)
Notable Works “Carrion Comfort” • “God’s Grandeur” • “Pied Beauty” • “Spring and Fall”

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William Blake
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William Wordsworth
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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John Keats
British poet
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Matthew Arnold
British critic
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English poet
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Thomas Hardy
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Lewis Carroll
British author
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Charlotte Brontë
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St. John Henry Newman
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Rudyard Kipling
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Graham Greene
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