G9 2ND GRADING AUTHORS NEW BOOK

He was born of poor parents who, at his birth, lived in a stable. His first poems were bitterly attacked by the literary reviewers. His last sonnet, "When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be," written when he was dying, laments the facts that he had so much more to give the world, but there was no time left to do so.

• John Keats
• Walt Whitman
• Edgar Allan Poe

Tennyson was more popular than him during their lifetime, but readers of today find more to admire in Browning. Most young find his poems obscure and hard to understand.

• Robert Browning
• John Keats
• William Wordsworth

He won distinction both as poet and as an essayist. In all his works, he was concerned about the social and moral problems of his age.

• Matthew Arnold
• Arthur Hugh Clough
• William Ernest Henley

She was extremely popular during her lifetime, even more than her husband. Her best-known poems are a book of love sonnets reflecting exquisite romans of their courtship and love.

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Christina Georgina Rossetti
• Emily Dickinson

She is well-known for the careful workmanship and exquisite melody of her poems.

• Christina Georgina Rossetti
• Emily Dickinson
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He expresses a philosophy that governed his life: he resigned from Oxford when he disagreed with its policies. He spent his last years fighting for his health.

• Arthur Hugh Clough
• William Wordsworth
• Robert Browning

He had one of his feet amputated because of tuberculosis of the bone. He lived on to be a newspaper editor and literary critic.

• William Ernest Henley
• Oliver Wendel Holmes
• Walt Whitman

He was America's nature poet and had many qualities similar to William Wordsworth's. He expressed a philosophy of life built around certain animating principles.

• William Cullen Bryant
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Nathaniel Hawthorne

He was a doctor of medicine and man-of-letters. He is well-known for his poems and essays. He was not the people's poet as Longfellow was; he was a poet of the city.

• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson

He grew up in the companionship of books. A leg injury made him develop habits of solitude and he spent long hours in his room reading books and developing his talent as a writer.

• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Walt Whitman