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Born May 1, 1672 • England
Died June 17, 1719 (aged 47) • London • England
Founder “The Spectator”
Notable Works “A Letter from Italy” • “A Poem to his Majesty” • “An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” • “Remarks on Several Parts of Italy”

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Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison, engraving, early 19th century.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Anglo-Irish playwright
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Henry James Pye
British poet
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
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
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Samuel Bamford
English social reformer and author
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William James Linton
British engraver and author
Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson
prime minister of United Kingdom
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
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
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Frederick Forsyth
British author
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Sir Harold Nicolson
British diplomat and author
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Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
British diplomat and poet
British prime minister Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic

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