British Poets 1789 - 1999

Academic, scholarly, and critical articles on British poets and British poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth century,
covering British Romantic poets, Victorian poets, war poets, contemporary poets, and more

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British Romantic poets

Blake, William (1757-1827)

Byron, George Gordon (1788-1824)

Clare, John (1793-1864)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

Hemans, Felicia (1772-1834)

Keats, John (1795-1821)

Robinson, Mary (1758-1800)

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)

Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Victorian poets and later nineteenth century British poets

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)

Lear, Edward (1812-1888)

Morris, William (1834-1896)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

Tennyson, Lord Alfred (1809-1892)

Twentieth century British poets

Betjeman, Sir John

MacDiarmid, Hugh

Masefield, John

Spender, Stephen

Yeats, William Butler

Poets of World War I

Blunden, Edmund

Rosenberg, Isaac

Sassoon, Siegfried

General articles on poetry of WWI

American poets who lived primarily in Britain

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)

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