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John Drinkwater
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Drinkwater, portrait by J.W. Thompson, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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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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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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Born June 1, 1882 • England
Died March 25, 1937 (aged 54) • London • England
Movement / Style Georgian poetry
Subjects Of Study English literature

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Drinkwater, portrait by J.W. Thompson, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sir J. C. Squire
British journalist and author
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
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
Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford
Edward Young
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Robert Williams Buchanan
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Walter de la Mare, photograph by Mark Gerson.
Walter de la Mare
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T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
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Wole Soyinka
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Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
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Robert Browning.
Robert Browning
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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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