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Also Known As George Edward Bateman Saintsbury
Born October 23, 1845 • Southampton • England
Died January 28, 1933 (aged 87) • Bath • England
Subjects Of Study French literature
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D.H. Lawrence
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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Sir Stephen Spender
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Sir Herbert Read.
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William Empson
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