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Also Known As	Sir Herbert Edward Read
Born	December 4, 1893 • England
Died	June 12, 1968 (aged 74) • Malton • England
Notable Works	“The Contrary Experiences” • “The Innocent Eye” • “The True Voice of Feeling: Studies in English Romantic Poetry”
Movement / Style	New Apocalypse
Subjects Of Study	form • the arts

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

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William Morris

British artist and author

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Kathleen Raine

British writer

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

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis

British artist and writer

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G.K. Chesterton

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Robert Graves

British writer

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William Empson

British critic and poet

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

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William Michael Rossetti

English art critic

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John Wain

British critic and writer

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T.E. Hulme

English critic and poet

C. Day-Lewis, 1968.

C. Day-Lewis

British poet

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Austin Dobson

British author

Quiller-Couch, 1943

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British writer

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Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet

English poet

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry