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William Blake
Robert Burns
Joanna Baillie
William Lisle Bowles
Samuel Rodgers
James Hogg
William Wordsworth

About the Author

John Wain, 1925-94, was an English novelist and critic. He served as professor of poetry at Oxford (1973-8) and wrote or edited more than seventy books. His works include the novels A Winter in the Hills (1970) and The Pardoner's Tale (1978); Letters to Five Artists (1969), poems; and critical studies of Arnold Bennett (1967) and Samuel Johnson (1975).