WJEC/Eduqas Poetry Anthology- Context of poets

Romantic Poets- End of 18th to early 19th century. Reeflecting a change in the way that people thought about art and writing. Finding beauty in the ordinary
1. William Blake
2. Percy Bysshe Shelley
3. Lord Byron
4. John Keats
5. William Wordsworth
Modern Poets
1. Imtiaz Dharker
2. Phillip Larkin
3. Simon Armitage
  1. Poems that are triggered by events
  2. Write collections about the Gulf War
4. Carol Ann Duffy
  1. Femenist
  2. Poet Laureate
  3. Lesbian
5. Seamus Heaney
  1. Poet Laureate
  2. Irish
  3. Draw from own experiences
  4. Political
6. Ted Hughes
  1. Poet Laureate
7. Rita Dove
  1. Husband is German and white.
  2. She is black
  3. Long distance relationship
  4. Southern states of America
    1. Hurricanes
8. Owen Shears
War Poets- Writing during WW1
1. Rupert Brooke
2. Wilfred Owen
Victorian Poets- Industrial Revolution, Disease, Women's rights
1. Elizabeth Barratt Browning
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Thomas Hardy- Tess of the D'Urbivilles

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