British Poets

Major British poets: • Geoffrey Chaucer — The Canterbury Tales (14th century) • William Wordsworth — Romantic poet, 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' (Daffodils) • Robert Burns — Scotland's national poet, 'Auld Lang Syne' • Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Shelley — Romantic poets • Wilfred Owen — WWI poetry • Dylan Thomas — Welsh poet, 'Under Milk Wood' • Sir Walter Scott — Scottish novelist and poet, Ivanhoe