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Born 1686 • England
Died April 23, 1740 (aged 54) • Bath • England
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Alexander Pope
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Andrew Lang
British scholar
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John Langhorne
English poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Elizabeth Carter, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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British author
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Elijah Fenton
British poet
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William Broome
British scholar and poet
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American teacher, critic, poet and translator
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English diplomat and writer
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American poet and translator
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British writer
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Samuel Johnson
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
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Ted Hughes
English poet
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
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Sidney Godolphin
English poet
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
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British writer
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William Painter
English author

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