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Born c.1560
Died c.1607
Notable Works “Greenes, groats-worth of witte, bought with a million of Repentance” • “The Tragedy of Hoffman”
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
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
English author and statesman
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet
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John Ford
British dramatist
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John Marston
British dramatist
Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
Charles Lamb
British author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Title page of a 1615 edition of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.
Thomas Kyd
English dramatist
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
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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John Webster
English dramatist
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Cyril Tourneur
English dramatist
Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford
Edward Young
English author
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Sir J. C. Squire
British journalist and author