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Born October 16, 1697 • England
Died April 12, 1742 (aged 44) • Twickenham • England
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
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
Leigh Hunt, detail of a watercolour and gouache on ivory by Margaret Gillies, 1838–46; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Leigh Hunt
British author
William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley
British writer
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
William Gifford, detail of an oil painting by John Hoppner (1758–1810); in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Gifford
British editor and scholar
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
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James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
Engraved portrait of John Milton by Jacob Houbraken, showing Milton with shoulder-length hair, a lace collar, and period clothing, facing forward in an oval frame.
John Milton
English poet, pamphleteer, and historian
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
English poet
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
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author

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