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Born c.1600
Died c.1678
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
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
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
English author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
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Richard Savage
English writer
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Aaron Hill
English author
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Thomas Blackburn
British poet
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
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
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Louis MacNeice
British poet
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James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
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
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet

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