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May 7, 2022

Biography John Donne, (born sometime between Jan. 24 and June 19, 1572, London, Eng.—died March 31, 1631, London), leading English poet of the Metaphysical school and [...]

Biography D.H. Lawrence, in full David Herbert Lawrence, (born September 11, 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England—died March 2, 1930, Vence, France), English author of novels, short [...]

Biography Alan Sillitoe, (born March 4, 1928, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England—died April 25, 2010, London), writer, one of the so-called Angry Young Men, whose brash and angry accounts of [...]

Biography William Shakespeare, Shakespeare also spelled Shakspere, byname Bard of Avon or Swan of Avon, (baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April [...]