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Also Known As Sir Stephen Harold Spender
Born February 28, 1909 • London • England
Died July 16, 1995 (aged 86) • London • England
Notable Works “Epithalamion”
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English 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
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
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
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
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A.A. Milne
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Sir J. C. Squire
British journalist and author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
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Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
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Robert Southey
English author
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
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Eden Phillpotts
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Robert Williams Buchanan
English author
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author

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