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Born 1652 • Dublin • Ireland
Died July 30, 1715 (aged 63) • London • England
Title / Office poet laureate (1707-1715) • poet laureate (1692-1706)
Notable Works “Absalom and Achitophel” • “Dido and Aeneas” • “New Version of the Psalms of David”
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
Charles Lamb
British author
Mary Ann Lamb, detail of an oil painting by Francis Stephen Cary, 1834; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Mary Ann Lamb
British author
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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
Harley Granville-Barker, detail of an oil painting by Jacques-Emile Blanche, 1930; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Harley Granville-Barker
British author and producer
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Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
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Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
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Alexander Dyce
Scottish editor
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Charles Clarke, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Cowden Clarke
English editor and critic
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh
king of Siam
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Delia Salter Bacon
American author
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Jan Kasprowicz
Polish writer
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
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Otto Ludwig
German writer
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Johann Elias Schlegel
German author and critic
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William Charles Macready
English actor
John Gielgud
John Gielgud
British actor and director
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William Kempe
British actor

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