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  2. Category:British poems - Wikipedia

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    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

  3. Home Thoughts from Abroad - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. The Goose and the Common - Wikipedia

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    Satirical print from 1830 depicting a goose lamenting the loss of the Commons to Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, a Duke and King William IV. "The Goose and the Common", also referred to as "Stealing the Common from the Goose", is a poem written by an unknown author that makes a social commentary on the social injustice caused by the privatization of common land during the ...

  5. England, My England and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    England, My England is a collection of short stories by D. H. Lawrence. Individual items were originally written between 1913 and 1921, many of them against the background of World War I. Most of these versions were placed in magazines or periodicals. Ten were later selected and extensively revised by Lawrence for the England, My England volume.

  6. British poetry - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Category:British poets - Wikipedia

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    S. Arthur Knowles Sabin; Peter Sansom; Edmund Beale Sargant; Jane Satterfield; Julian Jay Savarin; Chris Searle; Richard Sturgis Seymour; Robert Sheppard (poet)

  8. English poetry - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation - Wikipedia

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    In 1695, an Act of the Scottish Parliament set up the "Company of Scotland Trading in Africa and the Indies" generally just called the Company of Scotland.Although the Act limited investors to a maximum of £3,000, simple maths shows that the investors found a way around this and on average invested £35,000 each (around £4 million in modern terms).