Poetry

Landmark works

1. 1871 Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
2. 1798 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge · read free
3. 1816 Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. 1900 Don Juan by Lord Byron · read free
5. 1812 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
6. 1800 The Beggar's Opera by John Gay · read free
7. 1888 Invictus by William Ernest Henley
8. 1833 The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson
9. 1876 The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
10. 1671 Paradise Regained by John Milton · read free
11. 1712 The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
12. 1820 To Autumn by John Keats
13. 1794 Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
14. 1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson
15. 1819 Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
16. 1820 Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
17. 1750 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
18. 1819 Mazeppa by Lord Byron
19. Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson
20. 1879 The Light of Asia by Edwin Arnold
21. 1380 Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
22. 1814 The Corsair by Lord Byron
23. 1872 The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
24. 1813 The Giaour by Lord Byron
25. 1920 Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen
26. 1638 Lycidas by John Milton
27. 1671 Samson Agonistes by John Milton
28. 1842 My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
29. 1807 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
30. 1849 In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson

Writers

• Lord Byron1788–1824 · English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
• Geoffrey Chaucer1343–1400 · 14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
• William Blake1757–1827 · English poet and artist (1757–1827)
• Lewis Carroll1832–1898 · British author and scholar (1832–1898)
• John Milton1608–1674 · English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822 · British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
• John Keats1795–1821 · English Romantic poet (1795–1821)
• Charlotte Brontë1816–1855 · British novelist and poet (1816-1855)
• Emily Brontë1818–1848 · English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
• William Wordsworth1770–1850 · English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
• George Eliot1819–1880 · English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834 · English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772–1834)
• Alexander Pope1688–1744 · English poet (1688–1744)
• Alfred Tennyson1809–1892 · British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)
• Christopher Marlowe1564–1593 · English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593)
• John Donne1572–1631 · English poet and cleric (1572–1631)
• W. H. Auden1907–1973 · British-American poet (1907–1973)
• Neil Gaiman1960 · English writer (born 1960)
• Robert Browning1812–1889 · English poet and playwright (1812–1889)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861 · English poet (1806–1861)
• A. A. Milne1882–1956 · British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh (1882–1956)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti1828–1882 · English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator (1828-1882)
• Edmund Spenser1552–1599 · English poet (c. 1552–1599)
• John Henry Newman1801–1890 · English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)

And 368 more

• Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800)
• Matthew Arnold (1822)
• Ted Hughes (1930)
• Christina Rossetti (1830)
• Wilfred Owen (1893)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837)
• William Cowper (1731)
• Edward Lear (1812)
• Thomas Gray (1716)
• Pete Doherty (1979)
• Rupert Brooke (1887)
• Mary Wortley Montagu (1689)
• Edith Sitwell (1887)
• Thomas Wyatt (1503)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844)
• Alfred Edward Housman (1859)
• W. S. Gilbert (1836)
• Andrew Marvell (1621)
• Benjamin Zephaniah (1958)
• John Betjeman (1906)
• Lord Alfred Douglas (1870)
• Thomas Chatterton (1752)
• Anne Bradstreet (1612)
• John Gay (1685)
• Edward Carpenter (1844)
• Labi Siffre (1945)
• William Ernest Henley (1849)
• Radclyffe Hall (1880)
• John Clare (1793)
• Leigh Hunt (1784)
• Elizabeth Siddal (1829)
• Ewan MacColl (1915)
• Edward FitzGerald (1809)
• Renée Vivien (1877)
• Kae Tempest (1985)
• Walter Savage Landor (1775)
• Edward Young (1683)
• John Cooper Clarke (1949)
• Robert Herrick (1591)
• Simon Armitage (1963)
• Emilia Lanier (1569)
• Thomas Hood (1799)
• John Bowring (1792)
• Herbert Edward Read (1893)
• John Gower (1330)
• Arnold Bax (1883)
• Denise Levertov (1923)
• Edwin Arnold (1831)
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743)
• George Crabbe (1754)
• Felicia Hemans (1793)
• Edward Thomas (1878)
• Dinah Craik (1826)
• Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805)
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802)
• Dorothy Wordsworth (1771)
• Evelyn Underhill (1875)
• Mary Sidney (1561)
• William Davenant (1606)
• Pam Ayres (1947)
• Stevie Smith (1902)
• Alfred Austin (1835)
• Helen Dunmore (1952)
• Michael Drayton (1563)
• Andrew Motion (1952)
• Adelaide Anne Procter (1825)
• Roger McGough (1937)
• Richard Lovelace (1617)
• Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583)
• Charlotte Turner Smith (1749)
• John Keble (1792)
• Alice Oswald (1966)
• A. C. Benson (1862)
• Kathleen Raine (1908)
• Francis Thompson (1859)
• A. N. Wilson (1950)
• Richard Crashaw (1612)
• Mina Loy (1882)
• Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (1916)
• Keith Reid (1946)
• William Empson (1906)
• Amy Levy (1861)
• Aeronwy Thomas (1943)
• William Auld (1924)
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