Allan Cunningham

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Allan Cunningham, detail of a portrait by Henry Room; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Born	December 7, 1784 • Scotland
Died	October 30, 1842 (aged 57) • London • England
Notable Works	“The Works of Robert Burns”

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Andrew Motion

British poet and author

Hugh MacDiarmid

Scottish poet

Robert Burns

Scottish poet

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Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

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Robert Southey

English author

Allan Ramsay

Scottish poet

A.L. Rowse

British historian and writer

Muriel Spark

British writer

Thomas Hood

British poet

Robert Shiels

Scottish poet and editor

Alexander Chalmers

Scottish author and editor

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

James Boswell

Scottish biographer

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

British statesman and author

Samuel Johnson

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Edmund Clarence Stedman

American writer

Lord Byron

British poet

Sir Walter Scott

Scottish writer

St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

W. H. Auden

British poet

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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