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Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet
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Born November 15, 1897 • Scarborough • England
Died October 1, 1988 (aged 90) • England
House / Dynasty Sitwell family
Notable Family Members brother Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet • sister Edith Sitwell
Subjects Of Study Baroque art and architecture
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Newman, John Henry
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
William Morris
British artist and author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Sir Herbert Read.
Sir Herbert Read
British art critic
Helen Maria Williams
English writer
Beerbohm, Sir Max
Max Beerbohm
British humorist
Portrait of William Michael Rossetti by Sir William Rothenstein, oil on canvas, 1909; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Michael Rossetti
English art critic
Kathleen Raine
British writer
Philip Larkin
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:
Poetry: First Lines
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
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Books. Lord Alfred Tennyson. Lord Byron. Poetry. Reading. Literacy. Library. Antique. A stack of four antique leather bound books.
Poets and Poetry of Great Britain Quiz
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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