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| English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer. Best known for Robinson Crusoe. He wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). |
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| Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer. Famous for Gulliver's Travel and A Modest Proposal, |
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| British author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Wrote Dictionary of the English Language |
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| English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer.Known for Rape of the Lock |
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| English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright, Known for Absalom and Achitophel, and MacFlecknoe, The Restoration period is sometimes called the Age of Dryden |
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| English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. Famous for his Elegy Written in a country churchyard. Formed such common phrases as "Kindred Spirit", "nor all that glisters is gold", "Far from the maddening crowd". |
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| English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. |
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