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Born September 12, 1699 • London • England
Died January 29, 1768 (aged 68) • London • England
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Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet
English poet and translator
George Sandys, engraving after a portrait by Cornelius Janssen; frontispiece to Relation of a Journey (1615)
George Sandys
English poet and traveler
Ogilby, engraving by William Camden Edwards, 1820, after a drawing by J. Thurston
John Ogilby
British printer
Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier
Jacques Delille
French writer
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Nicholas Udall
English writer
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Sidney Godolphin
English poet
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William Painter
English author
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Thomas May
English scholar
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Sir Richard Baker
British author
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Jasper Heywood
English priest and poet
Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
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Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
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Horace Gregory
American poet and critic
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Annibale Caro
Italian writer
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Burton
British scholar and explorer
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist

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