Post-1900 poets AO3 Unseen

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Femenist activist, openly bisexual, adopted 'Roaring 20's' lifestyle, wrote anti-war poetry with a pacifist attitude, shocking many. Combined traditional forms with progressive attitudes. Wrote bold non-conformist poetry exploring female sexuality
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Robert Frost (1874-1963)
US poet, moved to UK for poetic freedom. Love of nature. Not experimental, but blurs and blends, Metaphysical use of detail. 2 children died
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Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
Lesbian? Typically used dramatic monologues, focus- trauma, lonely, death. Made pact not to marry due to fear of mental illness. Poor,sisters/father died. Committed suicide.
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Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001)
Devoted Catholic, severe mental illness, linked to 'The Movement' anti-romantic, traditional form, little emotion
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Elizabeth Jennings 2 (1926-2001)
often associated with ‘The Movement’,collective included Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin; mid-1960s she suffered a nervous breakdown+was hospitalized; a devout Catholic,religion theme, explores suffering, relationships, loneliness and religion
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Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
Mother died when age 10, abandoned puritism, troubled faith/childhood,poems 'reaction vs darkness', wife Mary divorced him 6 years after marriage, leaving him a single dad. Irish, combine humour and tragedy
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Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Wrote of 'tabboo' topics e.g abortion, mentally ill, confessional poet, emotional tone, incr freedom of sexuality in 60's, 2 daughters, post partum depression,bipolar, US poet.
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Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
part of 'The Movement', unaffected by 'swinging 60's', pessimistic, never married, poetry about relationships, influenced by Thomas Hardy, wrote of 'ordinary', critic of modernism, atheist,colloquial, loved UK.
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Phillip Larkin 2 (1922-1985)
voice of ‘The Movement’; Larkin employed the traditional tools of poetry—rhyme, stanza, and meter—to explore the often uncomfortable or terrifying experiences of the modern age; Deeply anti-social and a great lover of American jazz, Larkin
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Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
Born into a farming family in rural Northern Ireland, Married Marie Devlin, writer who would figure prominently in Heaney’s work; He wrote about love, mythology, memory,particularly on his nature,rural childhood,journeys and relationships, 'troubles'
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Keith Douglas (1920-1944)
Extrospective style detached tone, distrubing? Key WW2 poet, died in battle in Normandy, life vs death
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Tony Harrison (1937-)
Pastoral, focus on working class childhood, mam died when young, colloquial, class, race power, conveys message, politics,
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Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)
Began relationship with Jackie Kay 1995 , 1st openly LGBTQ+ poet laureate, influenced by Larkin, accesible lang, dramatic monologue?
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Paul Muldoon (1951-)
comtempary poet, ambiguous images, IRA references, blurs conventions, cultures, political vs personal, N.Ireland ,
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Michael Symmons Roberts (1963-)
contempary, critisizes capitalism, expresses spiritual concerns through physical methods,
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Wendy Cope (1945-)
popular contempary poet, self-reflective, humourous, similar tone to larkin but with female perspective, fellow of royal society of literature.
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US poet, moved to UK for poetic freedom. Love of nature. Not experimental, but blurs and blends, Metaphysical use of detail. 2 children died

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Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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Lesbian? Typically used dramatic monologues, focus- trauma, lonely, death. Made pact not to marry due to fear of mental illness. Poor,sisters/father died. Committed suicide.

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Devoted Catholic, severe mental illness, linked to 'The Movement' anti-romantic, traditional form, little emotion

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often associated with ‘The Movement’,collective included Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin; mid-1960s she suffered a nervous breakdown+was hospitalized; a devout Catholic,religion theme, explores suffering, relationships, loneliness and religion

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