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Bartleby.com: Modern British Poetry: Biographical Sketches HandoutBartleby.com: Modern British Poetry: Biographical Sketches Handout
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Bartleby
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9th - 10th
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English Language Arts
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1210L
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Bartleby.com: Modern British Poetry: Biographical Sketches

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This site offers brief biographies of many British poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These include Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, A. E. Housman, and many more.

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oscar wilde, robert louis stevenson, rudyard kipling, thomas hardy

Additional Tags

19th century british poetry, 19th century english poetry, 20th century british poetry, 20th century english poetry, a. e. housman, alfred noyes, british poets, g. k. chesterton, hilaire belloc, j. m. synge, john masefield, rupert brooke, siegfried sassoon, walter de la mare, william butler yeats, imagist poetry

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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The text of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem, "The Master," about Abraham Lincoln. Although Robinson was born a few years after Lincoln's death, he grasps the way attitudes toward Lincoln changed throughout his life and afterwards.
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University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Emily Dickinson (1830 1886)

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A collection of critical reviews of 16 of Emily Dickinson's poems. Most poems are analyzed by multiple critics. In addition, there are two biographical sketches, and essays examining her use of the dash and her lack of titles.
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Bartleby.com: New English Poetry: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry discusses the English renaissance poetry of Henry Howard (1517-1547).
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Bartleby.com: Wessex Poems & Other Verses by Thomas Hardy

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Biographical Poems

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Students write a biographical poem about themselves. They observe a teacher-led demonstration, write an autobiographical poem and a biographical poem about a famous person using a template form, and display the poems side-by-side.
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Bartleby.com: Henry Vaughan, the Retreat

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Bartleby provides the full text for the following poems: "The Retreat", "Peace", "The Timber", and "Friends Departed".
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Keats' poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" with notes.
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