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Charles Lamb
(1775–1834),was born in London. His father, the Lovel of ‘The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple’ in Essays of Elia, was the clerk to Samuel Salt, a lawyer, whose house in Crown Office Row was Lamb's ...
George Dyer
(1755–1841),published Poems (1792), and various critical essays. He is principally remembered as a friend of Lamb, who writes of him as a gentle and kindly eccentric. He is the subject of Lamb's ...
John Middleton Murry
(1889–1957)Editor and critic, born in Peckham of ambitious lower-middle-class parents. He made his mark while still an Oxford undergraduate as editor of the modernist periodical Rhythm (1911–13), ...
Leigh Hunt
(1784–1859)Writer, publisher, and editor, born at Southgate, the son of a poor clergyman. Hunt received his schooling as a charity boy at Christ's Hospital. His first collection of poems ...
Samuel Richardson
(1689–1761),received little education owing to his father's poverty. In 1706 he was apprenticed to a printer and set up in business on his own in 1721, in which year he married Martha Wilde. He ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772–1834)The English poet is important in the history of philosophy as one of the main conduits by which both the work of Kant and German Romanticism were introduced into England. Coleridge visited ...
William Camden
(1551–1623),antiquary and historian, was appointed headmaster of Westminster School in 1593; one of his pupils was Jonson, who said that he owed Camden ‘All that I am in arts, all that I know’. He ...
Yalding
KentVillage on the B2010, c. 6 m. SW of Maidstone. The poet Edmund Blunden came here with his parents in 1900 and spent his early years in what he ...
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