British Poets

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A selection of the most famous British poets from Chaucer to modern times. Also section on British Romantic poets

British Poets Include: 

Betjeman, John William Blake Anne Bronte Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Elizabeth Browning Lord Byron Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Browning John Donne Ted Hughes Ben Johnson	Rudyard Kipling D.H.Lawrence John Milton Wilfred Owen Christina Rossetti William Shakespeare Alfred Tennyson Dylan Thomas J.R.R.Tolkien Oscar Wilde
British Romantic Poets
	William Wordsworth John Keats Percy Shelley Samuel Coleridge Lord Byron Matthew Arnold  John Clare

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British poets include some of the world's best loved and widely read poets. British poets such as Shakespeare,  Blake and Keats have made an immense contribution to English literature. Also included are less well known British poets who have still made a significant contribution to British poetry.

Other Poetseers Links

• British Poetry - Selected extracts from various British Poets with short commentary's
• Victorian Poets - List of Poets from the Victorian era
• Metaphysical Poets 
  The Metaphysical poets were a loose collection of English poets who developed a new genre of poetry during the 17th Century. The most important poet of this movement was John Donne. Other poets included: George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crawshaw, Abraham Cowley
• Contemporary Poets - Contemporary British poets including Andrew Motion
• Nobel Prize For Literature: Including Seamus Heaney, W.B.Yeats, and T.S.Eliot
• Poetic Themes
• A- Z List of Poets

Further Reading on British Poets

• Mentor Book of Major British Poets

Edited by Oscar Wilde. Includes selections from 27 of the leading British poets, such as William Blake, John Keats, Percy Shelley, W.B.Yeats, and  Robert Browining

     New British Poetry

New British Poetry  by Don Paterson (Editor), Charles Simic (Editor)

presents the  work of thirty-five poets from England, Scotland, and Wales. In compiling this  anthology, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Scottish poet Don Paterson and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic chose poets born after 1945 and who have at least two books published in Britain. The  anthology includes well known poets such as Philip Larkin, Andrew Motion and Ted Hughes. And also less well known poets such as and James Fenton, Glyn Maxwell, Kathleen Jamie, and  recent T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Alice Oswald.

External Links to British Poets

• British Poetry 1780 - 1910  a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions at University of Virginia
• British Poets at the British Museum.  The British Library has extensive collections of poetry from both modern and classical British Poetry.  A selection of modern poetry manuscripts is displayed in the
• Scottish Poetry Library  This is a website dedicated to Scottish poetry.  The emphasis is on contemporary poetry written in Scotland, in Scots, Gaelic and English, but historic Scottish poetry and contemporary works from almost every part of the world feature too.  
• British Poets at Amazon
• List of British Poets at Wikipedia