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James Cousins
James Cousins (1873–1956) was an Irish poet, playwright, and critic of the Irish Literary Revival alongside Yeats, who moved to India in 1915 and coined the term "Indo-Anglian".
James Hogg
James Hogg (1770–1835), known as the Ettrick Shepherd, was a Scottish writer whose novel The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) is now a recognized masterpiece.
James Macpherson
James Macpherson (1736–1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, and literary collector known as the "translator" of the Ossian poems, which sparked a famous authenticity controversy.
John Gower
John Gower (c. 1330–1408) was an English poet and friend of Geoffrey Chaucer who wrote major works in French, Latin, and English, best known for the Confessio Amantis.
John Skelton
John Skelton (c. 1460–1529) was an English poet, satirist, and priest who served the Tudor court as tutor to the young Henry VIII and was later named orator regius.
John Suckling
Sir John Suckling (1609–1641 or 1642) was an English Cavalier poet, playwright, and courtier of Charles I, known for witty love lyrics like "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?"
Keith Douglas
Keith Douglas was an English poet and tank commander, best known for poems written during the North African campaign and for his desert-war memoir Alamein to Zem Zem.
Lake Poets
The Lake Poets, also known as the Lake School, were English Romantic poets of the early 19th century, chiefly Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Robert Southey, who lived in the Lake District.
Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt, born James Henry Leigh Hunt, was an English poet, essayist, and journalist who edited the radical weekly The Examiner and championed Keats and Shelley.
Lewis Morris (1833–1907)
Sir Lewis Morris (1833–1907) was a Welsh poet and barrister whose best-selling Epic of Hades ran to over 50,000 copies, and who led Welsh education reform.
Liverpool poets
The Liverpool poets, also called the Mersey poets, are Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Brian Patten, whose 1967 anthology The Mersey Sound brought poetry to a mass audience.
Mary Wroth
Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587–1651/3) was an English poet of the Sidney family, the first Englishwoman to publish a sonnet sequence and a prose romance.
Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) was an English poet of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, known for the sonnet sequence Ideas Mirrour and the long chorographical poem Poly-Olbion.
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon (born 1951) is an Irish poet from Portadown, County Armagh, known for allusive, formally intricate verse and winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
R. S. Thomas
R. S. Thomas, born Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913–2000), was a Welsh poet and Anglican clergyman who served rural Welsh parishes while writing more than twenty poetry collections.
Richard Lovelace
Richard Lovelace (1617 or 1618–1657) was an English poet and army officer, the archetypal cavalier poet, remembered for 'To Lucasta, going to the Wars' and 'To Althea, from Prison'.
Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823) was an English laboring-class poet, formerly a farmhand and shoemaker. His four-book georgic work, The Farmer's Boy (1800), was a bestseller of the Romantic period.
Robert Bridges
Robert Seymour Bridges was an English poet and physician who became Poet Laureate in 1913 and edited the first published edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems in 1918.
Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was an English poet and Anglican cleric, vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire, whose collection Hesperides (1648) includes "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet and historian of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, known for the sonnet sequence Delia and the unfinished epic The Civil Wars.
Sorley MacLean
Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain, 1911–1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet from Raasay, best known for 'An Cuillithionn' and 'Dàin do Eimhir', considered the greatest Gaelic poet of the twentieth century.
Stephen Duck
Stephen Duck (c. 1705–1756) was an English laboring-class poet known as the "thresher poet" who rose from Wiltshire farm work to Queen Caroline's patronage in 1730.
Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith, pen name of Florence Margaret Smith (1902–1971), was an English poet and novelist who wrote three novels and eight poetry collections, best known for "Not Waving but Drowning."
Thirties poets
The thirties poets, nicknamed "MacSpaunday," were British writers led by W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, and C. Day Lewis whose work reflected the decade's political crises.
Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) was an English poet, composer, and physician who wrote the words and music of his songs and produced influential treatises on poetry and music.
Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) was an English poet from Bristol who wrote mock-medieval verse attributed to the fictional priest Thomas Rowley and died in London at 17.
Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) was an English poet and humorist whose protest poem "The Song of the Shirt" became one of the best-known poems of the nineteenth century.
Thomas Kinsella
Thomas Kinsella was an Irish poet, translator, and editor, born in Dublin, whose 1969 translation of The Táin became the standard used in classrooms worldwide.
Thomas Warton
Thomas Warton (1728–1790) was an English poet, critic, and literary historian at Oxford who wrote The History of English Poetry and served as poet laureate from 1785.
Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare was an English poet and fiction writer, 1873 to 1956, known for The Listeners and Peacock Pie and for supernatural fiction treating ghosts as subjective experience.