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Born April 5, 1837 • London • England
Died April 10, 1909 (aged 72) • England
Notable Works “Atalanta in Calydon” • “Poems and Ballads”
Movement / Style Aestheticism • fleshly school of poetry • Decadent
Subjects Of Study literature

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