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Born c.1697 • England
Died August 1, 1743 • Bristol • England
Notable Works “Miscellaneous Poems” • “The Wanderer”
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Richard Flecknoe
English author
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
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James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
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
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
English author
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
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John Marston
British dramatist
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Thomas Blackburn
British poet
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
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
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
Sir David Lyndsay
Scottish poet
Anna Cora Mowatt, engraving from a daguerreotype.
Anna Cora Mowatt
American writer
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Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
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Louis MacNeice
British poet

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