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Also Known As Ignatius Roy Dunnachie Campbell
Born October 2, 1901 • Durban • South Africa
Died April 22, 1957 (aged 55) • Setúbal • Portugal
Notable Works autobiography • “The Flaming Terrapin”
Plomer
William Plomer
South African writer
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Butler
English author [1835-1902]
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James Fenton
British poet and journalist
J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee
South African 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
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Robert Graves
British writer
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
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Dennis Brutus
South African author
Black and white photograph of William Empson working at the BBC as a news editor for the Eastern Service on August 10, 1946.
William Empson
British critic and poet
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Sir Herbert Read.
Sir Herbert Read
British art critic
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Es’kia Mphahlele
South African writer

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