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United Kingdom poem stubs (57 P) Pages in category "British poems" The following 172 pages are in this category, out of 172 total.
In Ogden Nash's collection of poems I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938) there is a short poem "England Expects". [28] During the Second World War, an Admiralty propaganda poster intended to increase industrial production on the home front, carried the slogan; "Britain expects that you too, this day, will do your duty". [29]
British poetry is the field of British literature encompassing poetry from anywhere in the British world (whether of the British Isles, the British Empire, or the United Kingdom). Types of poetry which might be considered British poetry include: English poetry; Irish poetry from Northern Ireland; Scottish poetry (see Scottish literature) Welsh ...
Layamon's Brut (ca. 1190 – 1215), also known as The Chronicle of Britain, is a Middle English alliterative verse poem compiled and recast by the English priest Layamon. Layamon's Brut is 16,096 lines long and narrates a fictionalized version of the history of Britain up to the Early Middle Ages .
The poetry of this period was heavily influenced by the Romantics, but went off in its own directions. Particularly notable was the development of the dramatic monologue, a form used by many poets in this period, but perfected by Browning. [116] Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign.
Another important aspect of the 1980s and 1990s was the birth of key seminal poet-led organisations such as Torriano [35] and Blue Nose Poets/writers inc. [36] which, together, played a major role in establishing and disseminating the norms and etiquettes of grass-roots poetry workshops and readings one finds throughout the UK poetry scene today.
Browning's poem inspired singer-songwriter Clifford T Ward in his sentimental 1973 song "Home Thoughts from Abroad", which also makes reference to other romantic poets John Keats and William Wordsworth. [5] In 1995, Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad" was voted 46th in a BBC poll to find the United Kingdom's favourite poems. [6]
The Monarchs' Song from the CBBC TV series Horrible Histories lists the monarchs of England and has some phrases in common with the traditional verse. The original version was released in 2011 which stopped at Elizabeth II with the verse "And Queen Liz two completes the mix!".