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Sir Stephen Spender, is an English poet and critic who was born in 1909. He was a member of the generation of British poets who came to prominence in the 1930s, a group sometimes referred to as the Oxford Poets. It was a group that included W H Auden, Christopher Isherwood, C. Day Lewis, and Louis MacNeice. …
William Ernest Henley was born in Gloucester, England, in 1849. He was a poet, critic, and editor who introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890's. He was the son of a Gloucester bookseller and a pupil of the poet T.E. Brown. Henley contracted a tubercular disease in his …
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