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Facts

Born April 11, 1857 • Scotland
Died March 23, 1909 (aged 51) • Penzance • England

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John Davidson, crayon drawing by Walter Sickert; in the British Museum
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Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
Sir David Lyndsay
Scottish poet
Joanna Baillie, engraving by H. Robinson after a portrait by Sir William Newton
Joanna Baillie
British author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English 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
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
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
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Lithograph portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson with wavy hair, a full beard, and a serious expression, shown in three-quarter view wearing a dark coat.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English poet
Robert Browning.
Robert Browning
British poet
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Jonson, Ben
Ben Jonson
English writer
Marlowe or not Marlowe?
Christopher Marlowe
English writer
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author

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