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Born 1563 • Kent • England
Died September 28, 1618 (aged 55) • Middelburg • Netherlands
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
William Caxton
William Caxton
English printer, translator, and publisher
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
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John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
English statesman and author
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Sidney Godolphin
English poet
Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of
Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke
English translator
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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
Elizabeth Carter, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Elizabeth Carter
British author
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
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Terence Tiller
British writer
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Thomas Tickell
English writer
Broome, engraving by J.-M. Delattre after a portrait by D. Heins, 18th century
William Broome
British scholar and poet
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Jasper Heywood
English priest and poet
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John Langhorne
English poet
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
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Robert Bly
American author

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