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Born November 15, 1917 • Salisbury • England • (Birthday in 2 days)
Died June 16, 1963 (aged 45) • England
Notable Works “The Devils”
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer
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Michael Frayn
British author and translator
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Anne Ridler
British writer
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Louis MacNeice
British poet
Marlowe or not Marlowe?
Christopher Marlowe
English writer
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
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Nicholas Udall
English writer
Thomas Shadwell, engraving.
Thomas Shadwell
English author
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
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Uys Krige
South African dramatist
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Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet
English writer
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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
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Laurence Binyon
English scholar and poet
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Thomas May
English scholar
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
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Mary Hayley Bell
British author and actress
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet