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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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Also Known As Sir John Collings Squire
Born April 2, 1882 • Plymouth • England
Died December 20, 1958 (aged 76) • England
Movement / Style Georgian poetry
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
Drinkwater, portrait by J.W. Thompson, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Drinkwater
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Anne Ridler
British writer
Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford
Edward Young
English author
Robert Williams Buchanan
English author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
English author and statesman
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet
Nicholas Rowe, engraving by Remi Parr after the painting by Godfrey Kneller
Nicholas Rowe
English writer and editor
Ronald Duncan
British author

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