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Also Known As Murray, Leslie Allan
Born October 17, 1938 • Australia
Died April 29, 2019 (aged 80) • TareeAustralia
Notable Works “A Working Forest”“Dog Fox Field”“Ethnic Radio”“Fredy Neptune”“Learning Human, Selected Poems”“Peasant Mandarin”“Poems the Size of Photographs”“Subhuman Redneck Poems”“Taller When Prone”“The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle”“Waiting for the Past”

Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
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Andrew Motion
British poet and author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Arthur Symons, tempera painting by R.H. Sauter, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Symons
English poet and critic
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Joseph Blanco White
Spanish-English writer
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Philip Larkin
British poet
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Sara Coleridge
British author
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Alexander Chalmers
Scottish author and editor
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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John Donne
English poet
American-English writer T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author