Thomas Gray

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Thomas Gray, detail of an oil painting by John Giles Eccardt; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Born	December 26, 1716 • London • England • (Birthday tomorrow)
Died	July 30, 1771 (aged 54) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works	“An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” • “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” • “The Bard” • “The Progress of Poesy”
Movement / Style	graveyard school

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Thomas Gray, detail of an oil painting by John Giles Eccardt; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Poet John Milton

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Samuel Johnson

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Robert Browning.

Robert Browning

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William Blake

William Blake

British writer and artist

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

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D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

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Edmund Spenser

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Lord Byron

Lord Byron

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

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Keats, John

John Keats

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Matthew Arnold

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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