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Born May 23, 1799 • London • England
Died May 3, 1845 (aged 45) • London • England

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Thomas Hood, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Portrait of William Michael Rossetti by Sir William Rothenstein, oil on canvas, 1909; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Michael Rossetti
English art critic
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
Allan Cunningham, detail of a portrait by Henry Room; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Allan Cunningham
Scottish poet
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt
British writer
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
English poet
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Enid Blyton, 1962
Enid Blyton
British author
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Peter Ackroyd
British author, biographer, critic and scholar
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
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Anne Ridler
British writer
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Philip Larkin
British poet
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Sir Edward Howard Marsh
British scholar
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D.J. Enright
British poet
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Evelyn Underhill
British writer
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Sara Coleridge
British author
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Sir J. C. Squire
British journalist and author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author

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