Lennox Robinson: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson
Born	October 4, 1886 • Ireland
Died	October 14, 1958 (aged 72) • Dublin • Ireland
Notable Works	“Patriots”
Movement / Style	Irish literary renaissance

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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Micheál MacLiammóir

actor, scenic designer, and playwright

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Patrick Kavanagh

Irish poet

Portrait of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey wearing a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side against a dark background.

Sean O’Casey

Irish dramatist

Augusta, Lady Gregory, 1911.

Augusta, Lady Gregory

Irish writer

Colum, Padraic

Padraic Colum

Irish-born American poet

David Garrick as Richard III

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.

Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt

German writer and producer

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

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Anglo-Irish playwright

Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish author

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Brendan Behan

Irish author

Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke

Henry Brooke

Irish author

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Louis MacNeice

British poet

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Donagh MacDonagh

Irish author

J.M. Synge

J.M. Synge

Irish author

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Edward Martyn

Irish dramatist

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Saint John Ervine

British dramatist

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Sir William Davenant

English writer

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines