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This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] ... Charles Best (1570–1627, E) Mary Matilda Betham (1776–1852, E)
The six best-known English male authors are, [citation needed] in order of birth and with an example of their work: William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; William Wordsworth – The Prelude; Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; George Gordon, Lord Byron – Don Juan, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
This is a list of major poets of the Modernist poetry This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), English poet, subject of In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson; Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), English translator, poet and academic; Han Yu (768–824), Chinese essayist and poet of the Tang dynasty; Hanshan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty; Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. [1] – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. [1]
It was with the 14th century that major works of English literature began once again to appear; these include the so-called Pearl Poet's Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Langland's political and religious allegory Piers Plowman; Gower's Confessio Amantis; and the works of Chaucer, the most highly regarded English ...