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Facts

Born August 12, 1774 • Bristol • England
Died March 21, 1843 (aged 68) • Keswick • England
Title / Office poet laureate (1813-1843)
Notable Works “The Doctor” • “Wat Tyler”
Movement / Style Lake poet

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Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Joseph Addison
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D.H. Lawrence
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Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
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.
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