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Born this day

11-9-1700 James Thompson Scottish poet who penned, “Rule Britannia,” also in 1885 D.H. Lawrence, writer on human sexuality and social conditions in most notably, “Sons and lovers and Lady Chatterley’s lover,“ a book banned when it first appeared.

12-9-1907 Louis MacNiece, Irish poet and broadcaster, a member of the Oxford group which included Auden, Day Lewis and Spender.