British Poets

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British poetry is among the richest in the world. What Anglo-Saxon poem tells of its hero’s battles against monsters and is still translated into modern English?
Beowulf
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What Poems have survived from the Middle Ages?
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. A poem called Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, about one of the knights at the court of King Arthur.
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Where are some of the best-known poets buried or commemorated?
Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey
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Who wrote: ‘Oh, to be in England now that April’s there
And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf
While the Chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
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Robert Browning, 1812-89 – Home Thoughts from Abroad
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Who wrote: ‘She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
All that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes’
Lord Byron - she walks in beauty
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Who wrote: ‘I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils’
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 – The Daffodils
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Who wrote: ‘Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand and eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?’
William Blake, 1757-1827 – The Tyger
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‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the gun
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.’
Wilfred Owen, 1893-1918 – Anthem for Doomed Youth
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Who wrote: ‘Oh, to be in England now that April’s there
And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf
While the Chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In Eng

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Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
All that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes’

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