British Poetry Study Guide

England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"

• Christopher Marlowe

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• William Blake

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Close friend and collaborator of Wordsworth, suffered from an opium addiction

• Christopher Marlowe

• John Keats

• Andrew Marvell

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Considered by some to be a metaphysical poet, but he wrote many cavalier-style poems and was critical of the monarchy

• Lord Byron

• William Wordsworth

• Andrew Marvell

• Robert Herrick

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Famous dramatist of the Elizabethan age, more famous than Shakespeare at the time

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Christopher Marlowe

• John Donne

• George Herbert

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Husband of Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), unconventional in his poetry

• Robert Herrick

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

• John Keats

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Worked as an engraver, adding visual art to his poetry

• William Blake

• Robert Herrick

• George Herbert

• William Wordsworth

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Greatest metaphysical poet, became the Royal Chaplain of Cambridge

• John Keats

• Lord Byron

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• John Donne

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Infamous for his controversial lifestyle, a type of hero is named after him

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Lord Byron

• William Shakespeare

• Andrew Marvell

Served most of his life as a priest; many of his poems are sung as hymns today

• George Herbert

• Robert Herrick

• Christopher Marlowe

• John Keats

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Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843-50; said poems "are to be considered experiments"

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

• William Wordsworth

• Andrew Marvell

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