WJEC/Eduqas Poetry Anthology- Context of poets

WJEC/Eduqas Poetry Anthology- Context of poets

1. 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

   • William Blake
   • Percy Bysshe Shelley
   • Lord Byron
   • John Keats
   • William Wordsworth

2. Modern Poets

   • Imtiaz Dharker
   • Phillip Larkin
   • Simon Armitage
     • Poems that are triggered by events
     • Write collections about the Gulf War
   • Carol Ann Duffy
     • Femenist
     • Poet Laureate
     • Lesbian
   • Seamus Heaney
     • Poet Laureate
     • Irish
     • Draw from own experiences
     • Political
   • Ted Hughes
     • Poet Laureate
   • Rita Dove
     • Husband is German and white.
     • She is black
     • Long distance relationship
     • Southern states of America
       • Hurricanes
   • Owen Shears

3. War Poets- Writing during WW1

   • Rupert Brooke
   • Wilfred Owen

4. Victorian Poets- Industrial Revolution, Disease, Women's rights

   • Elizabeth Barratt Browning
   • Emily Dickinson
   • Thomas Hardy- Tess of the D'Urbivilles