Ancient Greek poet. Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, which date from somewhere in the range 9th - 7th century BC.
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Homer
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Bermondsey Library - 1 - Homer
We would not describe this face as ugly so it can't be Socrates. We reckon i...
Homer bust
The figures either side represent Poetry and History. Ornamental Passions ha...
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The Arts Club - left - WW2
Our Greek consultant, David Hopkins, transcribed the Greek quotation and writ...
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Tobias George Smollett
Born Dalquhurn (now part of Renton) Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Poet and author of novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle which supposedly influenced ...
Geoffrey Chaucer
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbur...
Jane Austen Society
Formed initially to preserve Jane's cottage in the village of Chawton, Hampshire. This was purchased in 1947 and is now open to the public.
The Wind in the Willows
Written by Kenneth Grahame, much of it based on a series of letters to he wrote to his son. First published October 1908.
Charles Kingsley
Born Devon. Christian Socialist and amateur naturalist. Supported his friend, Charles Darwin, when the Origin of Species was published. Wrote 'The Water-Babies', 1863, initially for his 4-year old ...