english poets

This picture book biography introduces poet and author, Jane Taylor, who wrote the poem "The Star" which was so popular the words were eventually published to the tune of the French folk song, "Ah! Vous dirais-je, Maman," in 1838 and became known as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.".

Edward Trelawny, a companion of English Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron between 1821 and 1824, describes his experiences with and impressions of them, as well as their early deaths.

A brief overview of British poetry from the early nineteenth century through the late twentieth century that profiles the lives and works of eleven authors, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, W. B. Yeats, and Dylan Thomas.

Examines early British poetry from the seventh to the nineteenth century, including short biographies of poets like William Shakespeare and John Donne; along with examples of poems, poetic techniques, and explication.

In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, a combat officer and poet, writes a letter publicly disavowing the war. He is found to be "mentally unsound" and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where there is a psychiatrist renowned for curing such cases.

Chronicles the life of twentieth-century writer, literary critic, and social commentator Stephen Spender, discussing Spender's literary, political, and artistic interests, childhood, schooling, contributions to the literary world, personal relationships, and more.

Chronicles the last thirty years of Coleridge's life, focusing on his failing marriage, his opium addiction, his relationship with Wordsworth, and his later writings.

Contains all the known surviving poems written by Auden between March 1922 when he decided to become a poet at the age of fifteen, and October 1928 when he left school.

Presents the life and works of the English visionary poet William Blake, discussing his childhood, apprenticeship, studies, and looks at some of the masterpieces he created as an adult, and his claims of having supernatural visions.