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Born 1637 • Hereford • England
Died 1674 (aged 37) • Teddington • England
Notable Works “Centuries of Meditations”
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Jack Clemo
British poet
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Richard Flecknoe
English author
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John Donne
English poet
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
Keble, chalk drawing by George Richmond, 1863; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Keble
British priest and poet
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
English author
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William Morris
British artist and author
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
English poet
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
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John Sheffield, 1st duke of Buckingham and Normanby
British statesman and author
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Richard Savage
English writer
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Robert Southwell
English poet and martyr
pages from Francis Quarles's Emblemes
Francis Quarles
English poet
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Thomas Blackburn
British poet
Abercrombie, Lascelles
Lascelles Abercrombie
British author

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