When was the author of "The Dream of Rome" born?
Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964), known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, popular historian and journalist. He has served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 2016 and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. He had previously been MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Conservative Party, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative and has been associated with both economically and socially liberal policies.
Stephen Romer Stephen Romer, FRSL is an English poet, academic and literary critic. He was born in Hertfordshire in 1957 and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Since 1981 he has lived in France, where he is Maître de Conferences in the English department of Tours University. He has been three times Visiting Professor in French at Colgate University, New York. Stephen Romer has four published collections of poetry with the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press and is the editor of the Faber anthology "Twentieth-Century French Poems". A selection of his recent poems appeared in the Carcanet Oxford Poets anthology 2001, and a book of his selected poems in French translation, Tribut, was published by Editions Le Temps qu'il fait in 2007. He regularly writes on French literature and modem poetry for the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.