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My Favourite Poets
John Keats: Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)John Keats: Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by John Keats
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One of the major poets in the English language; profound, sweeping and always engaging. A true artist.
The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Wordsworth Poetry Library)The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by Alfred Tennyson
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Sometimes archaic, never dull; one of the finest ears in English poetry.
Complete Poems and Plays T.S. EliotComplete Poems and Plays T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
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Redefined poetry; Indirect, abstract, transcendent yet always personal.
The Whitsun Weddings (Faber Poetry)The Whitsun Weddings (Faber Poetry) by Philip Larkin
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Tender, observant and at times, darkly humourous.
The Collected Poems of Ted HughesThe Collected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
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Idyllic and powerful; Hughes' focus on the power of nature is profound in a century associated with theoretical nature of Modernism.
The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The true Romantic; Shelley's verse is often overwhelming and sumptuously beautiful.
Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by William Yeats
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At times decadent but always intrinsically idiosyncratic; a master of verse and language.
The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by Oscar Wilde
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For a man who facetiously said that all poetry was silent, his work is roaring.
The Best of BetjemanThe Best of Betjeman by John Betjeman
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Tradtional, warm and charming.
Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by Stevie Smith
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A behemoth of poetry; beautifully irreverent.