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Gods, heroes and monsters : The Epic of Gilgamesh -- War, adventure, love : Homer, Sappho -- Latin classics : Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Catullus, Juvenal -- Anglo-Saxon poetry : Beowulf, laments and riddles -- Continental masters of the Middle Ages : Dante, Daniel, Petrarch, Villon -- A European poet : Chaucer -- Poets of the seen world and the unseen : The Gawain poet, Hafez, Langland -- Tudor Court poets : Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser -- Elizabethan love poets : Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney -- Copernicus in poetry : John Donne -- An age of individualism : Jonson, Herrick, Marvell -- Religious individualists : Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne -- Poetry from the world beyond : John Milton -- The Augustan age : Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith -- The other Eighteenth Century : Montagu, Egerton, Finch, Tollet, Leapor, Yearsley, Barbauld, Blamire, Baillie, Wheatley, Duck, Clare, Thomson, Cowper, Crabbe, Gray, Smart -- Communal poetry : popular ballads and hymns -- Lyrical ballads, and after : Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Second-generation romantics : Keats and Shelley -- Romantic eccentrics : Blake, Byron, Burns -- From Romanticism to Modernism in German poetry : Goethe, Heine, Rilke -- Making Russian literature : Pushkin, Lermontov -- Great Victorians : Tennyson, Browning, Clough, Arnold -- Reform, resolve and religion, Victorian women poets : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Brontë, Christina Rossetti -- American revolutionaries : Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson -- Shaking the foundations : Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Valéry, Dylan Thomas, Edward Lear, Charles Dodgson, Swinburne, Katharine Harris Bradley, Edith Emma Cooper, Charlotte Mew, Oscar Wilde -- New voices at the end of an era : Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Hopkins -- The Georgian poets : Edward Thomas and Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke, Walter de la Mare, W.H. Davies, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, W.W. Gibson, Robert Graves, D.H. Lawrence -- Poetry of the First World War : Stadler, Toller, Grenfell, Sassoon, Owen, Rosenberg, Gurney, Cole, Cannan, Sinclair, McCrae -- The great escapist : W.B. Yeats -- Inventing Modernism : Eliot, Pound -- West meets East : Waley, Pound, the Imagists -- American Modernists : Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Esther Popel, Helene Johnson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes -- Getting over Modernism : Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop -- The Thirties poets : Auden, Spender, MacNeice -- Poetry of the Second World War : Douglas, Lewis, Keyes, Fuller, Ross, Causley, Reed, Simpson, Shapiro, Wilbur, Jarrell, Pudney, Ewart, Sitwell, Feinstein, Stanley-Wrench, Clark -- American confessional poets, and others : Lowell, Berryman, Snodgrass, Sexton, Roethke -- The movement poets and associates : Larkin, Enright, Jennings, Gunn, Betjeman, Stevie Smith -- Fatal attractions : Hughes, Plath -- Poets in politics : Tagore, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Brodsky, Lorca, Neruda, Paz, Seferis, Seifert, Herbert, MacDiarmid, R.S. Thomas, Amichai -- Poets who cross boundaries : Heaney, Walcott, Angelou, Oliver, Murray. |
