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He was born Edward Marlborough Purcell, at Bredfield House in Suffolk. His father, John Purcell, assumed in 1818 the name and arms of his wife's family, Fitzgearld Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, to Stephen and Zilpah in Portland, Maine where he grew up. It has been said that he was one of the most beloved poets. Robert Herrick (baptized August 24, 1591- October 1674) was a 17th century English poet. Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child of a prosperous goldsmith, who committed suicide when Robert was a year old. Gray began seriously writing poems in 1742, mainly after his close friend Richard West died. He moved to Cambridge and began a self-imposed programme of literary study, becoming one of the most learned men of his time, though he claimed to be lazy by inclination. William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 – died April 23, 1616) Keats was born on October 31, 1795 in Finsbury Pavement in London, where his father was a stable manager, only a few yards from Moorgate station. The first seven years of his life were happy. The beginnings of his troubles occurred in 1804, when his father died from a fractured skull after falling from his horse. He was brought up a Roman Catholic. However, Wyatt is said to have been turned into an enemy of the Spaniards by witnessing the activities of the Spanish Inquisition while accompanying his father on a mission to Spain. Andrew Marvell was born in Winestead-in-Holderness in 1621. The son of a vicar, he spent his childhood in the town of Hull and attended the Grammar School there.He subsequently attended Trinity College, Cambridge. He travelled widely following the death of his father in 1641 and spent some five years visiting Holland, Italy, France and Spain. Tennyson held the position of Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death, turning out appropriate but mediocre verse, such as a poem of greeting to Alexandra of Denmark when she arrived in Britain to marry the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Edward VII. During his years in London, A E Housman completed his cycle of 63 poems, A Shropshire Lad. After several publishers had turned it down, he published it at his own expense in 1896. The volume surprised both his colleagues and students. Edgar A Guest He was a prolific writer of poetry, plays and novels. Notable works were Ave Atque Vale, a tribute to Baudelaire and Poems and Ballads: Second Series. Rescued from alcoholism and almost certainly an early grave by Theodore Watts-Dunton in 1879, Swinburne continued to write continuously and his output was truly impressive. Dowson attendedThe Queen's College,Oxford, but left before obtaining a degree. He was born in Kent in England, educated at Oxford though he left without taking a degree. He joined the Rhymer's club and contributed poems to The Yellow Book and The Savoy. One of the major English romantic poets, Shelley was widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias,Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy; but his major works were long visionary poems such as Adonais and Prometheus Unbound. His fame rests not only on his writings, but also on his life, which featured extravagant living, numerous love affairs, debts, separation, allegations of incest and sodomy and an eventual death from fever after he traveled to fight on the Greek side in the Greek War of Independence. He was also famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know. "He was also the father of Ada Lovelace. Hardy was born in Higher Bockhampton in Dorset, England where the cottage may still be visted today. He was schooled in nearby Dorchester (Casterbridge). Unsurprisingly, as the countryside there is as beautiful and compelling as any in Englands, he developed a love of nature and a sympathy for animals that stayed with him throughout his life and the influence on his writing is clear. Hood born in London, the son of a Scottish bookseller. Following poor health he was sent to Dundee in 1815 to recuperate with his father's relatives where he wrote for the local newspaper. returning to London in 1818. In 1821, after a period working as an engraver, he was appointed sub-editor of the London Magazine where he met Hazlitt, Lamb and John Reynolds. In 1829 Hood became editor of The Gem in 1829 and published works by Tennyson, among others. The son of a vicar, Coleridge was the youngest of a large family and had an unhappy childhood. 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