Loading...
Loading...
| Poet | Key Poem | Famous Line |
|---|---|---|
| Wordsworth | Daffodils | "I wandered lonely as a cloud" |
| Coleridge | Ancient Mariner | "Water, water, everywhere" |
| Byron | Don Juan | Byronic Hero, died in Greece |
| Shelley | Ode to the West Wind | "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" |
| Keats | Ode to a Nightingale | "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" (Endymion) |
Romantic Age started: Lyrical Ballads (1798) — Wordsworth & Coleridge Lake Poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey
| Author | Key Work | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Tennyson | In Memoriam, Charge of Light Brigade | Poet Laureate |
| Browning | My Last Duchess | Dramatic monologue |
| Dickens | Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist | "Best of times, worst of times" |
| Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Wessex novels |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | C = J (alphabetical) |
| Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | E = W |
| George Eliot | Middlemarch | = Mary Ann Evans (female!) |