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Also Known As Robert Laurence Binyon
Born April 10, 1869 • Lancaster • England
Died March 10, 1943 (aged 73) • Reading • England
Notable Works “For the Fallen” • “The Divine Comedy”
Subjects Of Study painting • Asia
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
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Robert Browning.
Robert Browning
British poet
Marlowe or not Marlowe?
Christopher Marlowe
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William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
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Graham Greene, 1982
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Thomas Lodge
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Thomas Shadwell, engraving.
Thomas Shadwell
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Anthony Munday
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George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
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Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet
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Anne Ridler
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Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
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W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
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Ernest F. Fenollosa
American orientalist and art critic
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Uys Krige
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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
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Louis MacNeice
British poet
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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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
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Lord Byron
British poet

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