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Born June 15, 1605 • England
Died March 1635 (aged 29) • Northamptonshire • England
Notable Works “The Muse’s Looking-Glass”
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
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John Marston
British dramatist
Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thomas Otway
English author
Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir John Suckling
English poet and dramatist
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Robert Armin
English actor and playwright
English playwright and poet
James Shirley
English playwright
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Thomas Nabbes
English writer
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish writer
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Spike Milligan
Irish writer and comedian
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Donagh MacDonagh
Irish author
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
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
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
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic

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