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Also Known As Thomson William Gunn
Born August 29, 1929 • Gravesend • England
Died April 25, 2004 (aged 74) • San Francisco • California
Notable Works “On the Move” • “Positives” • “The Sense of Movement”
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Illustration from Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe
English 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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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
British author
C. Day-Lewis, 1968.
C. Day-Lewis
British poet
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
Portrait of John Masefield, English poet and novelist, c. 1915, showing him in a suit with a high white collar and a contemplative expression.
John Masefield
British poet
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Jack Clemo
British poet
Phillpotts, Eden
Eden Phillpotts
British writer
Siegfried Sassoon, wearing a British army uniform and cap, looks directly at the camera in this 1915 black-and-white portrait.
Siegfried Sassoon
British writer
Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thomas Otway
English author
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Betjeman, John
John Betjeman
British poet
MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid
Scottish poet
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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
British poet
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Joseph Blanco White
Spanish-English writer
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John Lehmann
British poet
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Thomas Cooper
British writer

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