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Born September 24, 1762 • England
Died April 7, 1850 (aged 87) • Salisbury • England

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William Bowles, engraving by Thomson, first quarter of the 19th century, after a painting by Mullar
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Samuel Johnson
English author
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Alexander Pope
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Arthur Symons, tempera painting by R.H. Sauter, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Symons
English poet and critic
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
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Charles Cowden Clarke
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Sir J. C. Squire
British journalist and author
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Robert Burns
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Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
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Andrew Lang
British scholar
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A.J.M. Smith
Canadian poet and anthologist
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Edmund Clarence Stedman
American writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
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T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
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