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Swedish opera singer, known as 'The Swedish Nightingale'
Exiled French soldier and essayist
Poet of 'The Cenci' and 'Prometheus Unbound', drowned in Italy
Playwright, poet, and spy, known for 'Edward II' and 'The Jew of Malta'
Australian poet, jockey, and politician
The most popular Victorian poet, author of 'Ulysses' and 'In Memoriam'
Poet of 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'
Actor famous for his performances of Shakespeare
Academy Award winning Shakespearean actor and director
Poet laureate under Charles II and James II and leading poet of his day
Jesuit priest and poet
The most popular novelist of the nineteenth century
Novelist and poet known for such works as 'Far from the Madding Crowd'
Playwright of 'The School for Scandal' and 'The Rivals'
Poet laureate and author of 'Sea-Fever'
Antiquarian and historian; wrote the first topographical survey of the British Isles
Playwright known for 'The Way of the World' and 'The Mourning Bride'
Poet of the 'A Shropshire Lad' cycle
Playwright, poet, novelist, and convicted homosexual
Poet of Hudibras
Playwright of 'The Wits' and 'The Siege of Rhodes,' the first English opera
Playwright known for 'Hay Fever' and 'Blithe Spirit'
Novelist of 'Barchester Towers' and 'The Way We Live Now'
Poet of 'Under Milk Wood' and 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night'
Scottish poet known for patriotic poems like 'Hohenlinden'
Poet Laureate and journalist
Poet of 'Endymion' and 'To Autumn', died in Rome
Novelist of 'Vanity Fair' and 'Henry Esmond'
Poet of 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'
Actress who won an Oscar for her role in 'A Passage to India'
Poet, Member of the 'Inklings' and Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Royalist poet of 'The Mistress,' one of the most prominent poets of his day, but since fallen into obscurity
Scottish national poet
Novelist known for 'Middlemarch' and 'Silas Marner'
Playwright of 'She Stoops to Conquer', novelist of 'The Vicar of Wakefield'; poet of 'The Deserted Village'
The Swan of Avon
Art critic, author of 'The Stones of Venice' and 'Modern Painters'
Diplomat and poet, negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht
Scottish poet and novelist, best known for the Waverley novels
Launched the Romantic age with 'Lyrical Ballads', author of 'The Prelude'
Poet of 'The Faerie Queene'
Poet and playwright; author of 'Volpone' and 'The Alchemist'
Victorian poet famous for his dramatic monologues like 'Fra Lippo Lippi'
Poet, painter and mystic
American-born novelist of 'Roderick Hudson' and 'Washington Square'
The first burial in poets' corner
Poet and dramatist best known for 'The Beggar's Opera'
working class poet, later mad
Poet of 'Don Juan', died fighting for Greek independence
16 Poets from World War I are commemorated on a plaque; name one
Author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
Novelist of 'Evelina' and 'Cecilia'
German-born composer of Messiah and Water Music
American poet known for his translation of 'The Divine Comedy' and 'Evangeline'
Whig historian and politician, author of 'The History of England from the Accession of James the Second'
1816-1855; 1818-1848; 1820-1849
Sisters and novelists
Novelist of 'Mansfield Park' and 'Persuasion'
The poet of British imperialism, author of 'Gunga Din' and 'The Man Who Would Be King'
Poet of 'Cooper's Hill' and King's Surveyor under Charles II
Generally considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare
'The Unhappy Countess,' a poet whose life inspired Thackeray's 'Barry Lyndon'
Author of the Dictionary of the English Language
Poet of 'The Waste Land' and 'The Four Quartets'
Scottish architect and furniture designer
The best actress of her day, mocked by Pope
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