English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval
Underneath are the six lines from John Dryden – ‘Three Poets in three distant Ages born,’
English School; (?)1688.
14 x 10 cm
Price £14.00
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Simon Grynaeus was a German scholar and theologian of the Protestant Reformation.
7.5 x 4.5 cm
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Anatole France, pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Thibault was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.
From a photo by E.O.Hope
Published by the Bookman 1914
Size 19 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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Charlotte Nicholls, commonly known by her maiden name Charlotte Brontë, was an English novelist and poet, and was the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which was first published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
Photomechanical print by George Richmond. 1809-1896
Size 21 x 15 cms
Price £30.00
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George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
Photogravure by Lizzie Caswall Smith, published by George G. Harrap & Company,
Printed by The Edinburgh Press 1913
Size 20 x 14 cms
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English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman is seen as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century
Size 17 x 13 cms
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Ida Laura Pfeiffer, née Reyer, a famous early female Austrian professional traveler who became an explorer, ethnographer, and travel writer; her bestselling journals were translated into seven languages .
Artist/Engraver August Weger 1823-1892 Leipzig
Size28 x 21cms
Price £16.00
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English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Her first major breakthrough came with The Improvisatrice and she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, influencing fellow English writers such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and Christina Rossetti. Her influence can also be found in the United States, where she was very popular.
Published 1820s by James Frazer
Size 28 x 23 cms
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Martha Remmert was a German classical pianist, music educator, conductor and music writer. Born: 4 August 1853, Duża Wólka, Poland Died: 24 January 1941 (age 87 years), Neuses, Coburg, Germany
Artist/Engraver August Weger 1823-1892 Leipzig
Size 29 x 20cms
Price £14.00
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Johann Lorenz von Mosheim was a German Lutheran theologian who founded the pragmatic school of church historians, which insisted on objective, critical treatment of original sources. In 1723, Mosheim became a professor at Helmstedt and in 1747 was made professor of divinity and chancellor of the university at Göttingen.
Artist/Engraver Georg Daniel Heumann, 1750
Size 34 x 24cms
Price £28.00
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