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Facts

Baptized January 24, 1664
Died March 26, 1726 • London • England
Notable Works “The Relapse: or, Virtue in Danger”
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture

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Woodstock, England: Blenheim Palace
Colossal order, court facade of Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England, by Sir John Vanbrugh, begun 1705
Vanbrugh, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
British writer
Etherege, Sir George: The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter
Sir George Etherege
British dramatist
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
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William Wycherley
English dramatist
Thomas Shadwell, engraving.
Thomas Shadwell
English author
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Frederick Leonard Lonsdale
British playwright
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
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
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
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane
English playwright
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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Harold Pinter
British dramatist
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer

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