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Baptized	October 9, 1674 • Shrewsbury • England
Died	June 18, 1749
Notable Works	“Pastorals” • “The Distressed Mother”

William Shakespeare

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Samuel Johnson

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D.H. Lawrence

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

Matthew Arnold

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Robert Browning

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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John Dryden

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Ben Jonson

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Christopher Marlowe

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Sir Philip Sidney

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Joseph Addison

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William Congreve

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Graham Greene

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Robert Southey

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Harold Pinter

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John Gay

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford

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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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