19th-20th Century Poets

After _____ died in a drowning accident, his friends cremated him on the beach.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Contemporary critics called this poet a “working class ‘Cockney’ poet.”

John Keats

From childhood on, this poet lead a sequestered and obscure life.

Emily Dickinson

Nature was almost a religion to _____.

William Wordsworth

The most popular (and possibly most important) Victorian poet.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The poet who died of tuberculosis at early age was _____.

John Keats

The poet who wrote in Scottish dialect was ____.

Robert Burns

The pre-eminent Irish poet of the twentieth century.

William Butler Yeats

This poet burned all of his early poetry after converting to Roman Catholicism.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

This poet spent a year in France, hoping to witness the French Revolution first hand.

William Wordsworth

This poet was known as the “hot-tempered poet of the people” in youth but as the “good gray poet” in maturity.

Walt Whitman

This poet wrote nearly 1800 poems. All but a very few were published posthumously.

Emily Dickinson

This poet’s heart is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Which poet is also famous as a novelist?

Thomas Hardy

Which poet is regarded by many as the greatest of the Romantic poets?

William Wordsworth

Which poet was also an artist and a visionary?

William Blake

Which poet was also involved in Irish Nationalism and mysticism?

William Butler Yeats

Which poet was known for poetic experimentation and for innovations such as “sprung rhythm?”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Which poet’s poetic reputation was overshadowed by that of his wife during his lifetime?

Robert Browning

Who co-authored the Lyrical Ballads?

William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience?

William Blake