This seems odd when one recalls that he wrote poetry longer than any other major English poet: `` Domicilium '' is dated `` between 1857 and 1860 '' ; ;

The medieval English poet Chaucer describes his student as being happy by having

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet ( d. 1892 )

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

* 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English poet ( d. 1900 )

* 1887 – Rupert Brooke, English poet ( d. 1915 )

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

* Adrian Mitchell ( 1932 – 2008 ), English poet, novelist and playwright

* 1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer ( d. 1843 )

* 1880 – Radclyffe Hall, English poet, novelist, and activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( d. 1903 )

* 1906 – John Betjeman, English poet ( d. 1984 )

* 1844 – Edward Carpenter, English poet ( d. 1929 )

He befriended English poet Matthew Arnold and English philosopher Herbert Spencer as well as being in correspondence and acquaintance with most of the U. S. Presidents, statesmen, and notable writers.

* 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 1869 – Laurence Binyon, English poet ( d. 1943 )

* 1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet ( d. 1822 )

* 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet ( b. 1844 )

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.

Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

In 1805, English instructor and natural philosopher John Dalton used the concept of atoms to explain why elements always react in ratios of small whole numbers ( the law of multiple proportions ) and why certain gases dissolved better in water than others.

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1954 – John Lloyd, English tennis player

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1925 – John Dexter, English director ( d. 1990 )

The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.

* 1692 – John Henley, English clergyman ( d. 1759 )

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

* 2007 – John Gardner, English author ( b. 1926 )

* 2012 – John Berry, English motorcycle racing promoter and manager ( b. 1944 )

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

While Wesley freely made use of the term " Arminian ," he did not self-consciously root his soteriology in the theology of Arminius but was highly influenced by 17th-century English Arminianism and thinkers such as John Goodwin, Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond of the Anglican " Holy Living " school, and the Remonstrant Hugo Grotius.

* 1944 – John Renbourn, English guitarist and songwriter ( Pentangle )

* 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant ( d. 1744 )