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Geoffrey Chaucer
44 ? 20 London, England, GB
1340 - 1400(10/25) 		John Skelton
44 ? ? ?, England, GB
1463 - 1529(06/21) 		Thomas Wyatt
44 ME16 1622 Allington Castle, Allington, England, GB
1503 - 1542(10/11) 		Edmund Spenser
44 E1 20 East Smithfield, London, England, GB
1552/3 - 1599(01/13) 		Walter Raleigh
44 EX9 1395 East Budleigh, England, GB
1552 - 1618(10/29)
Philip Sidney
44 TN11 ? Penshurst Place, Penshurst, England, GB
1554(11/30) – 1586(10/17) 		Samuel Daniel
44 ? ? Somerset, England, GB
1562 - 1619 		Michael Drayton
44 CV10 ? Hartshill, England, GB
1563 - 1631(12/23) 		Christopher Marlowe
44 CT 1227 Canterbury, England, GB
1564(02/26) - 1593(05/30) 		William Shakespeare
44 CV37 1789 Stratford-upon-Avon, England, GB
1564(04/26) - 1616(04/23)
Thomas Campion
44 ? 20 London, England, GB
1567(02/12) - 1620(03/01) 		Thomas Nashe
44 NR33 1502 Lowestoft, England, GB
1567(11) - 1601 		John Donne
44 ? 20 London, England, GB
1571/2 - 1631(03/31) 		Benjamin Jonson
44 ? ? ?, England, GB
1572(06/11) - 1637(08/06) 		Robert Herrick
44 ? 20 London, England, GB
1591(08/24) - 1674(10/15)
George Herbert
44 SY15 1686 Montgomery, Wales, GB
1593(04/03) – 1633(03/01) 		Thomas Carew
44 BR4 1689 West Wickham, England, GB
1595 – 1640(03/22) 		James Shirley
44 ? 20 London, England, GB
1596(09) – 1666(10) 		Edmund Waller
44 HP7 1494 Coleshill, England, GB
1606(03/03) – 1687(10/21) 		John Milton
44 EC4 20 Bread Street, London, England, GB
1608(12/09) – 1674(11/08)
John Suckling
44 TW7 20 Whitton, England, GB
1609(02/10) – 1641(05) 		William Cartwright
44 GL20 1684 Northway, England, GB
1611(09/01) – 1643(11/29) 		Abraham Cowley
44 EC 20 City of London, England, GB
1618 – 1667(07/28) 		Richard Lovelace
44 SE18 20 Woolwich, London, GB
1617(12/09) – 1657 		Andrew Marvell
44 HU12 1964 Winestead, England, GB
1621(03/31) – 1678(08/16)
John Dryden
44 NN14 ? Aldwincle, England, GB
1631(08/19) - 1700(05/12) 		Thomas Traherne
44 HR 1432 Hereford, England, GB
1636/7 - 1674(09/22) 		George Berkeley
353 ? ? Dysart Castle, Thomastown, KK, IE
1685(03/12) – 1753(01/14) 		John Gay
44 EX31 1271 Barnstaple, England, GB
1685(06/30) – 1732(12/04) 		Alexander Pope
44 ? 20 London, England, GB
1688(05/21) – 1744(05/30)
William Oldys
44 ? 20 London, England, GB
1696(07/14) – 1761(04/15) 		Thomas Gray
44 EC3 20 Cornhill, London, England, GB
1716(12/26) – 1771(07/30) 		Williams Collins
44 PO19 1243 Chichester, England, GB
25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759 		Christopher Smart
44 TN11 ? Shipbourne, England, GB
1722(04/11) – 1771(05/20) 		Oliver Goldsmith
353 N39 90 Ballymahon, LD, IE
1728(11/10) – 1774(04/04)
William Cowper
44 HP4 1442 Berkhamsted, England, GB
1731(11/26) – 1800(04/25) 		Thomas Chatterton
44 BS 117 Bristol, England, GB
1752(11/20) – 1770(08/24) 		William Blake
44 W1 20 Soho, London, England, GB
1757(11/28) – 1827(08/12) 		Robert Burns
44S KA7 1292 Alloway, Scotland, GB
1759(01/25) – 1796(07/21) 		William Wordsworth
44 CA13 1900 Cockermouth, England, GB
1770(04/07) –1850(04/23)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
44 EX11 1404 Ottery St Mary, England, GB
1772(10/21) – 1834(07/25) 		Thomas Campbell
44S G 141 Glasgow, Scotland, GB
1777(07/27) –1844(06/15) 		Walter Savage Landor
44 ? ? ?, England, GB
1775(01/30) – 1864(09/17) 		Thomas Moore
353 D01 1 Aungier Street, Dublin, D, IE
1779(05/28) –1852(02/25) 		Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti
39 66054 873 Vasto, CH, IT
1783(02/28) –1854(04/24)
James Henry Leigh Hunt
44 N14 20 Southgate, London, England, GB
1784(10/19) – 1859(08/28) 		George Gordon Byron
44 NW1 20 Holles Street, Marylebone, London, England, GB
1788(01/22) –1824(04/19) 		Percy Bysshe Shelley
44 RH12 1403 Warnham, England, GB
1792(08/04) – 1822(07/08) 		William Cullen Bryant
1 01026 413? Cummington, Hampshire County, MA
1794(11/03) –1878(06/12) 		John Keats
44 EC2 20 Moorgate, London, England, GB
1795(10/31) – 1821(02/23)
Thomas Hood
44 ? 20 Poultry, Cheapside, London, England, GB
1799(05/23) – 1845(05/03) 		Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 02205? 617? Boston(BSTN), Suffolk County, MA
1803(05/25) – 1882(04/27) 		Thomas Lovell Beddoes
44 BS8 117 Clifton, England, GB
1803(06/30) – 1849(01/26) 		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1 04101? 207? Portland(PTLD), Cumberland County, ME
1807(02/27) – 1882(03/24) 		John Greenleaf Whittier
1 01830? 978? Haverhill(HVHL), Essex County, MA
1807(12/17) – 1892(09/07)
Edgar Poe
1 02205? 617? Boston(BSTN), Suffolk County, MA
1909(01/19) - 1849(10/07) 		Edward FitzGerald
44 IP13 ? Bredfield, England, GB
1809(03/31) - 1883(06/14) 		Alfred Tennyson
44 PE23 ? Somersby, England, GB
1809(08/06) - 1892(10/06) 		Oliver Wendell Holmes
1 02139? 617? Cambridge(CMBR), Middlesex County, MA
1809(08/29) - 1894(10/07) 		Robert Browning
44 SE5 20 Camberwell, London, GB
1812(05/07)–1889(12/12)
Edward Lear
44 N19 20 Holloway, London, England, GB
1812(05/12) – 1888(01/29) 		Arthur Hugh Clough
44 L 151 Liverpool, England, GB
1819(01/01) – 1861(11/13) 		James Russell Lowell
1 02139? 617? Cambridge(CMBR), Middlesex County, MA
1819(02/22) – 1891(08/22) 		Walt Whitman
1 11746 631? Huntington, Suffolk County, NY
1819(05/31) – 1892(03/26) 		Charles Kingsley
44 ? ? Holne, Devon, England, GB
1819(06/12) – 1875(01/23)
Herman Melvill
1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY
1819(08/01) – 1891(09/28) 		Matthew Arnold
44 TW18 1784 Laleham, England, GB
1822(12/24) –1888(04/15) 		George Meredith
44 PO 23 Portsmouth, England, GB
1828(02/12) – 1909(05/18) 		Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
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1828(05/12) – 1882(04/09) 		Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
44 WA4 1925 Daresbury, England, GB
1832(01/27) – 1898(01/14)
William Schwenck Gilbert
44 WC2 ? 17 Southampton Street,
Strand, London, England, GB
1836(11/18) – 1911(05/29) 		Algernon Charles Swinburne
44 SW1W 20 7 Chester Street,
Grosvenor Place, Belgravia, London, England, GB
1837(04/05) – 1909(04/10) 		Thomas Hardy
44 DT2 ? Stinsford, England, GB
1840(06/02) - 1928(01/11) 		Sidney Clopton Lanier
1 31201? 478? Macon(MACN), Bibb County, GA
1842(02/03) - 1881(09/07) 		Gerald Manley Hopkins
44 E15 20 Stratford, London, England, GB
1844(07/28) – 1889(06/08)
Robert Seymour Bridges
44 CT14 1304 Walmer, England, GB
1844(10/23) - 1930(04/21) 		William Ernest Henley
44 GL 1452 Gloucester, England, GB
1849(08/23) - 1903(07/11) 		Alfred Edward Housman
44 B60 1527 Bromsgrove, England, GB
1859(03/26) - 1936(04/30) 		Francis Joseph Thompson
44 PR 1772 Preston, England, GB
1859(12/16) - 1907(11/13) 		John Davidson
44S G78 141 Barrhead, Scotland, GB
1857(04/11) – 1909(03/23)
Jorge Agustνn Nicolαs Ruiz de Santayana y Borrαs
34 28001 911 Madrid, MD, ES
1863(12/16) - 1952(09/26) 		oseph Rudyard Kipling
91 400006 22 Malabar Hill, Mumbai, MH, IN
1865(12/30) - 1936(01/18) 		William Butler Yeats
353 D04 1 Sandymount, Dublin, D, IE
1865(06/13) - 1939(01/28) 		Ernest Christopher Dowson
44 SE12 20 Lee, London, GB
1867(08/02) - 1900(02/23) 		Edgar Lee Masters
1 66032 785 Garnett(GRNT), Anderson County, KS
1868(08/23) - 1950(03/05)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
1 04535 207? Head Tide, Alna, Lincoln County, ME
1869(12/22) - 1935(04/06) 		William Henry Davies
44W NP 1633 Newport, Wales, GB
1871(07/03) - 1940(09/26) 		Walter John de la Mare
44 SE7 20 Charlton, London, GB
1873(04/25) – 1956(06/22) 		Robert Lee Frost
1 94142? 415? San Francisco(SNRF), CA
1874(03/26) - 1963(01/29) 		Carl August Sandburg
1 61401? 309? Galesburg(GLBG), Knox County, IL
1878(01/06) - 1967(07/22)
John Edward Masefield
44 HR8 1531 Ledbury, England, GB
1878(06/01) - 1967(05/12) 		Harold Edward Monro
32 1060 ? 137 chaussιe de Charleroi,
Saint-Gilles, BRU, BE
1879(03/14) - 1932(03/16) 		Wallace Stevens
1 19612? 610? Reading(RDNG), Berks County, PA
1879(10/02) - 1955(08/02) 		Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
1 62703? 217? Springfield(SPFD), Sangamon County, IL
1879(11/10) - 1931(12/05) 		William Carlos Williams
1 07070 201372,438,60,507,31,635,72,91,
728,9,804,42,72,96,933,5,9,64 Rutherford(RTFR), Bergen County, NJ
1883(09/17) - 1963(03/04)
David Herbert Lawrence
44 NG16 1773 Eastwood, Nottingham, England, GB
1885(09/11) - 1930(03/02) 		Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
1 83333 208578,788 Hailey(HALY), Blaine County, ID
1885(10/30) - 1972(11/01) 		John Robinson Jeffers
1 15233? 412? Allegheny,
Pittsburgh(PITB), Allegheny County, PA
1887(01/10) - 1962(01/20) 		Edwin Muir
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1887(05/15) - 1959(01/03) 		Rupert Chawner Brooke
44 CV21 1788 Rugby, England, GB
1887(08/03) - 1915(04/23)
John Crowe Ransom
1 38478 931363,424,68 Pulaski(PLSK), Giles County, TN
1888(04/30) - 1974(07/03) 		Thomas Stearns Eliot
1 63166? 314? Saint Louis(STLS), MO
1888(09/26) - 1965(01/04) 		Conrad Potter Aiken
1 31402? 912? Savannah(SVNH), Chatham County, GA
1889(08/05) - 1973(08/17) 		Archibald Macleish
1 60022? 847? Glencoe, Cook County, IL
1982(05/07) - 1982(04/20) 		John Peale Bishop
1 25414 304535,724,5,8,870,6
Charles Town(CHTW), Jefferson County, WV
1892(05/21) - 1944(04/04)
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
44 SY10 1691 Oswestry, England, GB
1893(03/18) – 1918(11/14) 		Edward Estlin Cummings
1 02139? 617? Cambridge(CMBR), Middlesex County, MA
1894(10/14) - 1962(09/03) 		Robert von Ranke Graves
44 SW19 20 Wimbledon, London, England, GB
1895(07/24) - 1985(12/07) 		John Orley Allen Tate
1 40391? 859? Winchester(WNCH), Clark County, KY
1899(11/19) - 1979(02/09) 		Harold Hart Crane
1 44231 330527 Garrettsville(GRVL), Portage County, OH
1899(07/21) - 1932(04/27)
Oscar Kaplan
380 31500 3857 Letychiv, UA
1900(12/29) - 1964(10/10) 		Frederic Ogden Nash
1 10580 914921,925,967 Rye(RYE), Westchester County, NY
1902(08/19) - 1971(05/19) 		Cecil Day-Lewis
353 R14 59 Ballintubbert, LS, IE
1904(04/27) - 1972(05/22) 		Richard Ghormley Eberhart
1 55912 507? Austin(AUST), Mower County, MN
1904(04/05) - 2005(06/09) 		Peter Courtney Quennell
44 BR1 20 Bickley, England, GB
1905(03/09) - 1993(10/27)
Vernon Phillips Watkins
44W CF34 1656 Maesteg, Wales, GB
1906(06/27) – 1967(10/08) 		William Empson
44 DN14 1430 Yokefleet, England, GB
1906(09/27) - 1984(04/15) 		Wystan Hugh Auden
44 YO 1904 York, England, GB
1907(02/21) - 1973(09/29) 		Frederick Louis MacNeice
44N BT 28 Belfast, Northern Ireland, GB
1907(09/12) - 1963(09/03) 		Stephen Harold Spender
44 SW5 ? Kensington, London, England, GB
1909(02/28) - 1995(07/16)
Lawrence George Durrell
91 144001 181 Jalandhar, PB, IN
1912(02/27) - 1990(11/07) 		George Granville Barker
44 IG10 20 Loughton, England, GB
1913(02/26) - 1991(10/27) 		Karl Jay Shapiro
1 21203? 410? Baltimore(BLTM), MD
1913(11/10) – 2000(05/14)
Delmore Schwartz
1 11201? 718? Brooklyn(NYCK), NY
1913(12/08) – 1966(07/11) 		Dylan Marlais Thomas
44W SA1 1792 Uplands, Swansea, Wales, GB
1914(10/27) - 1953(11/09) 		Robert Traill Spence Lowell
1 02205? 617? Boston(BSTN), Suffolk County, MA
1917(03/01) – 1977(09/12)
Edward Dyer44 BA169 1458 Sharpham Park, Sharpham, England, GB1543(10) - 1607(05)
George Peele44 ? ? ?, England, GB1556(07/25) - 1598
John Webster44 ? ? ?, England, GB1578 - 1632
Richard Crashaw44 ? 20 London, England, GB1612/3 – 1649(08/21)
Henry Vaughan44W LD3 1874 Llansantffraed, Wales, GB1621(04/17) - 1695(04/23)
William Douglas?1672 - 1748
Alfred Hayes44 WV 1902 Wolverhampton, England, GB1857 - 1936
Frederick Robert Higgins353 F26 96 Foxford, MO, IE1896(04/24) - 1941(01/06)
Alfred Hayes44 WV 1902 Wolverhampton, England, GB1911(04/18) - 1985(08/14)
Frank Templeton Prince44 ? ? ?, England, GB1912(09/13) - 2003(08/07)
William Robert Rodgers44N BT 28 Belfast, Northern Ireland, GB1909 - 1969
Henry Reed44 B 121 Birmingham, England, GB1914(02/22) - 1986(12/08)
John Streeter Manifold61 3000 ? Melbourne, VIC, AU1915(04/21) – 1985(04/19)
Sappho
30 81100 22510 Mytilene, K, GR
-630 - -570 		Jashoda Rao Ratan Singh Rathore
91 306101 2939 Kudki, RJ, IN
1498 - 1548 		Anne Dudley Bradstreet
44 NN 1604 Northampton, England, GB
1612(03/08) - 1672(09/16)
Phillis Wheatley Peters
220 ? ? ? ?, GM
1753 - 1784(12/05) 		Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett Browning
44 DH6 191 Coxhoe, England, GB
1806(03/06) – 1861(06/29) 		Emily Jane Brontλ
44 BD13 1274 Thornton, England, GB
1818(07/30) 1848(12/19) 		Julia Ward Howe
1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY
1819(05/27) – 1910(10/17)
Christina Georgina Rossetti
44 W1W5HG ? 110 Hallam St, London, England, GB
1830(12/05) – 1894(12/29) 		Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
1 01002? 413? Amherst(AMHR), Hampshire County, MA
1830(12/10) – 1886(05/15) 		Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1 53505 608? Johnstown, Rock County, WI
1850(11/05) - 1919(10/30) 		Sarah Norcliffe Dalton
1 23501? 757? Norfolk(NRFL), VA
1876(02/04) - 1959(04/04) 		Sarojini Naidu
91 500 40 Hyderabad, TS, IN
1879(02/14) - 1949(03/02)
Elinor Morton Hoyt
1 08876 908? Somerville(SOVL), Somerset County, NJ
1885(09/07) - 1928(12/16) 		Marianne Craig Moore
1 63166? 314? Kirkwood, Saint Louis(STLS), MO
1887(11/15) – 1972(02/05) 		Anna Andreyevna Gorenko
380 65000 48 Odesa, UA
1889(06/23)Edna St. Vincent Millay
1 04841 207230,6,338,54,72,525,48,93,4,6,734,832,863,7,930
Rockland(RKLD), Knox County ME
1892(02/22) – 1950(10/19) 		Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
7 101000 495 Moscow, MOW, RU
1892(10/08) - 1941(08/31)
Elizabeth Bishop
1 01613? 508? Worcester(WRCS), MA
1911(02/08) – 1979(10/06) 		Julia Randall
1 21203? 410? Baltimore(BLTM), MD
1923(06/15) - 1979(10/06) 		Adrienne Cecile Rich
1 21203? 410? Baltimore(BLTM), MD
1929(05/16) - 2012(03/27) 		Sylvia Plath
1 02205? 617? Boston(BSTN), Suffolk County, MA
1932(10/27) - 1963(02/11) 		Audrey Geraldine Lorde
1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY
1934(02/18) - 1992(11/17)
Mary Jane Oliver
1 44137 216332,475,518,81,4,7,662,3,810
Maple Heights(MPHG), Cuyahoga County, OH
1935(09/10) - 2019(01/17) 		Thelma Lucille Sayles
1 14043 716? Depew, Erie County, NY
1936(06/27) - 2010(02/13) 		Joy Harjo
1 74103? 918? Tulsa(TULS), Creek, Tulsa County, OK
1951(05/09) 		Carol Ann Duffy
44S G 141 Glasgow, Scotland, GB
1955(12/23) 		Rupi Kaur
92 ? ? ?, PB, PK
1992(10/04) >
Gene Derwood1 ? ? ?, US1909 - 1954
Ann Darr1 50026 641? Bagley, Guthrie County, IA1920(03/13) - 2007(12/02)
Marge Piercy1 48231? 313? Detroit(DTRT), Wayne County, MI1936(03/31)

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