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Johnson, Lionel, 1867-1902

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Personal name headingJohnson, Lionel, 1867-1902
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Variant(s)Johnson, Lionel Pigot, 1867-1902
Associated countryGreat Britain
Birth date1867-03-15
Death date1902-10-04
Place of birthBroadstairs, England
Place of deathLondon, England
Field of activityPoetry Criticism
AffiliationRhymers' Club (London, England)
Profession or occupationPoets Critics
Found inHis The collected poems of Lionel Johnson, 1982: CIP t.p. (Lionel Johnson)
The art of Thomas Hardy, 1923: t.p. (Lionel Johnson)
Post liminium: essays and critical papers, 1911: t.p. (Lionel Johnson)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, viewed May 7, 2013 (born on 15 March 1867 at Broadstairs (England), Kent; won a Winchester scholarship to New College, Oxford, in 1886 where he was tutored and strongly influenced by Walter Pater; was involved in the Rhymers' Club and published in both its books in 1892 and 1894; he also fell physically, often from too much drink, and in the end from a series of strokes. The last of these strokes caused a fall and a skull fracture in the Green Dragon in Fleet Street. Johnson was taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he died on 4 October 1902)
Associated languageeng