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Born 1566
Died February 1626 (aged 60) • Paisley • Scotland
Notable Works “A picktooth for the Pope, or the packman’s paternoster”
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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William Dunbar
Scottish poet
Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
Sir David Lyndsay
Scottish poet
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Scottish poet
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
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Samuel Butler
English author [1612–1680]
John Skelton, detail of the frontispiece to The Garlande of Laurelle, printed by Richard Faukes, 1523; in the British Museum
John Skelton
English poet
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
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John Marston
British dramatist
Marvell, Andrew
Andrew Marvell
English poet
John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester, detail of an oil painting attributed to J. Huysmans; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester
English poet
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
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John Sheffield, 1st duke of Buckingham and Normanby
British statesman and author
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Richard Savage
English writer
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John Oldham
British poet
Charles Churchill, detail of a portrait by J.S.C. Schaak; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Churchill
British poet

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