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It is probably Housman's best-known poem, [1] [2] and one of the most anthologized of English lyrics. [3] Its opening line has become a part of the language, "inextricably lodged in the public mind and vocabulary". [4] In a 1995 poll it was chosen as one of the British people's 100 favourite poems. It has been set to music over 60 times.
Smoke After Flame, 1944; Hinterland, 1947; Poems in Pamphlet IV: Visions of Time, 1952; Tomorrow is my Love, 1978; The Burning Book, 1982; Brevities, 1991; His most popular poems include "My Old Cat" (voted one of Britain's favourite 20th-century poems in a BBC poll), "The Beginners" and "The Seed".
Rudyard Kipling's If— (1895), often voted Britain's favourite poem [24] [25] The Georgian poets were the first major grouping of the post-Victorian era. Their work appeared in a series of five anthologies called Georgian Poetry which were published by Harold Monro and edited by Edward Marsh.
A print of Samuel Johnson, based on a portrait by Joshua Reynolds, later used in the 1806 edition of the Lives of the Poets. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
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]
Poems included "The Barrel-Organ". [7] "The Highwayman" was first published in the August 1906 issue of Blackwood's Magazine, and included the following year in Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems. In a nationwide poll conducted by the BBC in 1995 to find Britain's favourite poem, "The Highwayman" was voted the nation's 15th favourite poem. [5]
Sir John Betjeman, CBE (/ ˈ b ɛ tʃ ə m ən /; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster.He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition.
The Land (poem) Last Post (poem) The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun; Leisure (poem) The Lie (poem) Limbo (Coleridge poem) Lines (poem) Lines on an Autumnal Evening; Lines Written at Shurton Bars; Little Gidding (poem) Little Red Cap (poem) Locksley Hall; Love Among the Ruins (poem) Lullay, mine liking