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Facts

Born June 1, 1878 • England
Died May 12, 1967 (aged 88) • Abingdon-on-Thames • England
Title / Office poet laureate (1930-1967)
Notable Works “Dauber” • “Reynard the Fox” • “Salt-Water Ballads” • “The Everlasting Mercy”

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Portrait of John Masefield, English poet and novelist, c. 1915, showing him in a suit with a high white collar and a contemplative expression.
Portrait of English poet John Masefield as a young man, wearing a dark suit and tie, with short hair and a mustache, looking directly at the camera.
English poet John Masefield, an elderly man with white hair and mustache, sits in a suit holding a pipe and looking to the side.
Masefield, 1961
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C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Illustration from Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe
English author
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
British author
C. Day-Lewis, 1968.
C. Day-Lewis
British poet
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
Phillpotts, Eden
Eden Phillpotts
British writer
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Siegfried Sassoon, wearing a British army uniform and cap, looks directly at the camera in this 1915 black-and-white portrait.
Siegfried Sassoon
British writer
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Robert W. Service
Robert W. Service
Canadian writer
Walter de la Mare, photograph by Mark Gerson.
Walter de la Mare
British author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
George Orwell, c. 1940
George Orwell
British author
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author

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