English Poets

English Poets

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• Betjeman, John
• William Blake
• Anne Bronte
• Emily Bronte
• Lord Byron
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• John Clare
• Robert Browning
• John Donne
• Ben Jonson
• Rudyard Kipling
• D.H.Lawrence
• John Milton
• Wilfred Owen
• Christina Rossetti
• William Shakespeare
• Edmund Spenser
• Alfred Tennyson
• William Wordsworth
• John Keats
• Percy Shelley
• Samuel Coleridge
• Matthew Arnold

Other Links

Metaphysical Poets

The Metaphysical poets were a loose collection of British poets who developed a new genre of poetry during the 17th Century.

The Romantics

A section dedicated to those poets associated with the Romantic period of poetry

British Poets

Books on English Poets

• 100 Great Poets of the English Language
• English Romantic Poets - Essay Criticism
• Samuel Johnson's Guide to English Poets

This site offers a selection from the works of over 100 the English Poets with an introduction and commentary by Samuel Johnson.

Further Resources on English Poets

• Lives of the Most Famous English Poets by William Winstanley. E Text at Project Guthenburg
• English Poetry at Wikipedia - Discussion of different types of English poetry from the earliest Monastic poetry to the Romantic period, high Victorian poetry such as Tennyson and contemporary English poetry