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Also Known As Sir John Collings Squire
Born April 2, 1882 • Plymouth • England
Died December 20, 1958 (aged 76) • England
Movement / Style Georgian poetry
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
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
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
Drinkwater, portrait by J.W. Thompson, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Drinkwater
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
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Anne Ridler
British writer
Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford
Edward Young
English author
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Robert Williams Buchanan
English author
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
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet
Nicholas Rowe, engraving by Remi Parr after the painting by Godfrey Kneller
Nicholas Rowe
English writer and editor
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Ronald Duncan
British author

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