British Literature Since 1800: Poetry, Man!

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ROMANTIC POETRY:
First Generation

Robert Burns

William Blake

William Wordsworth (Poet Laureate after Southey)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Second Generation
George Gordon, Lord Byron

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Third Generation
John Keats
VICTORIAN POETS:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson(Poet Laureate after Wordsworth's death in 1850)

Robert Browning

TWENTIETH CENTURY MODERNISTS:
William Butler Yeats

T. S. Eliot


Robert Burns

To a Mouse

Tam O'Shanter

Green Grow the Rashes

Ae Fond Kiss

A Red, Red Rose

For A' That and A' That

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William Blake

    Poetical Sketches 

    Songs of Innocence

    Songs of Experience

    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    The Book of Thel

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William Wordsworth

"We Are Seven" [notes]

"Lines" (Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey) [notes]

    "Preface" (to Lyrical Ballads)

The Lucy Poems:
"Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known"  
[notes]
"She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways"
[notes]
"Three Years She Grew"  [notes]
"A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal"  [notes]
"I Travelled Among Unknown Men"  [notes]

    "The Ruined Cottage"  [notes]
            (Part I of The Excursion)

    Michael  [notes]

    I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud  [notes]

    My Heart Leaps Up  [notes]

    Ode:  Intimations of Immortality  [notes]

    The Solitary Reaper  [notes]

    Sonnets:

        Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802  [notes]

        It Is a Beauteous Evening  [notes]

        Surprised by Joy  [notes]

    The Prelude:  Books 1  [text]& 12  [text] (1850) [notes]


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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

Christabel

Dejection:  An Ode

Frost at Midnight

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:  Canto 3:  Stanzas 1-28, 36-45, 68-78, 85-98, 113-118

Don Juan:  Canto 2:  Stanzas 8-12, 17-21, 49-53, 56-57, 66-68

When We Two Parted

She Walks In Beauty

So We'll Go No More A-Roving

When A Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home

Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa

The Vision of Judgment

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Percy B. Shelley

    Ozymandias

    The Indian Serenade

    Ode to the West Wind

    To a Sky-Lark

    To-- [Music, When Soft Voices Die]

    Adonais

    When the Lamp is Shattered

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John Keats

    The Eve of St. Agnes

    La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad

    Ode to a Nightingale

    Ode on a Grecian Urn

    To Autumn

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    The Lotos-Eaters

    Ulysses

    Tithonus

    Break, Break, Break

    The Princess:

       Sweet and Low

        The Splendor Falls

        Tears, Idle Tears

        Ask Me No More

        Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

    Flower in the Crannied Wall

    Crossing the Bar

    In Memoriam A. H. H.:  Prologue, 5, 12, 50, 99, 131

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Robert Browning

    Porphyria's Lover

    Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

    My Last Duchess

    How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix

    The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church

    Love Among the Ruins

    "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"

    A Grammarian's Funeral

    Youth and Art

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William Butler Yeats

    The Lake Isle of Innisfree

    The Sorrow of Love

    When You are Old

    September 1913

    The Wild Swans at Coole

    Easter 1916

    The Second Coming

    A Prayer for my Daughter

    Sailing to Byzantium

    Leda and the Swan

    Among School Children

    A Dialogue of Self and Soul

    After Long Silence

    Lapis Lazuli

    Long-Legged Fly

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T. S. Eliot

    The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock

    Journey of the Magi

    Four Quarters:  Little Gidding

    The Waste Land

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