Chapter 4 · Modern Society
British Poets
Source: Handbook p.76
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
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