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Born February 10, 1916 • England
Died August 13, 1977 (aged 61) • Wales
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James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
English author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
Portrait of dramatist Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
English author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Dowson, portrait by Charles Conder; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Ernest Dowson
British poet
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Richard Savage
English writer
Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.
Caroline Norton
British writer
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Richard Hughes
British writer
Walter de la Mare, photograph by Mark Gerson.
Walter de la Mare
British author
Phillpotts, Eden
Eden Phillpotts
British writer
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Richard Flecknoe
English author
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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
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
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.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author

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