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Born February 14, 1717 • London • England
Died September 17, 1802 (aged 85) • Twickenham • England
Notable Works “Scribleriad”
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Thomas Parnell, detail of an engraving
Thomas Parnell
Irish author
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
William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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John Donne
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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
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
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
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
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Hilaire Belloc
British author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet

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