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Born August 23, 1849 • Gloucester • England
Died July 11, 1903 (aged 53) • England
Notable Works “Invictus” • “National Observer”

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Leigh Hunt, detail of a watercolour and gouache on ivory by Margaret Gillies, 1838–46; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sir Stephen Spender
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Geoffrey Grigson
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Nicholas Amhurst
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T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
John Pepper Clark
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Walter Allen
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Charles Dickens
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D.H. Lawrence
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Poet John Dryden
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Sir Philip Sidney
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William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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