John Dennis

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Born	1657 • London • England
Died	January 6, 1734 (aged 77) • London • England
Subjects Of Study	dramatic literature • poetry

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Matthew Arnold

British critic

John Dryden

British author

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

William Congreve

English dramatist

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Eric Bentley

American critic, translator, and stage director

Edward Young

English author

Sir J. C. Squire

British journalist and author

Drinkwater, portrait by J.W. Thompson, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Drinkwater

British poet

Robert Williams Buchanan

English author

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

François Mauriac

French author

Carol Ann Duffy

British poet

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

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