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Facts

Born 1642? • Norfolk • England
Died November 19, 1692 • London • England • (Anniversary in 6 days)
Title / Office poet laureate (1689-1692)
Movement / Style Court Wit

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Thomas Shadwell, engraving.
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William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
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Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet
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Christopher Marlowe
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Thomas Lodge
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Anthony Munday
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George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
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Laurence Binyon
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Anne Ridler
British writer
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
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Uys Krige
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Louis MacNeice
British poet
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Samuel Johnson
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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
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David Garrick as Richard III
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