Enlgish Poets Flashcards
Is one of the founders of the Irish Literary Revival, Yeats’ works draw heavily on Irish mythology and history. His most famous works include The Second Coming, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Easter 1916, Sailing to to Byzantium.
W.B. Yeats
Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century. She took her life at age 30. Her most famous works include Daddy, Lady Lazarus, Tulips, and Mad Girl’s Love Song.
Sylvia Plath
An English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. Famous poems include A Lover’s Complaint, Shall I compare thee to a summer, too many Sonnets.
William Shakespeare
An English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. His famous works include It, The White Man’s Burden, Gunga Din, Mandalay, and My Boy Jack.
Rudyard Kipling
An English poet that goes by the nicknames The National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. His famous works include To A Mouse, A Red, Red Rose, Tam o’ Shanter, and Holy Willie’s Prayer
Robert Burns
An English Romantic poet who helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. His works include The Prelude, I Wondered Lonely of a Cloud, Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality.
William Wordswoth
An English poet, peer, and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the historical leading figures of the Romantic movement of his era. His most famous works include Don Juan, She Walks in Beauty, and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimade.
Lord Byron
an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. His famous works include Ode to a Nghtingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and To Autumn
John Keats
An English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Famous works include The Cry of the Children, The Batte of Marathon, and My Last Duchess.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Famous works include Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
