FAVOURITE CLASSIC POETS

Find out about the lives and works of the writers of THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, REMEMBER WHEN I AM GONE, SONGS OF INNOCENCE and many other all-time favourite poems.

Poets introduced in this book include Walter de la Mare, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Rudyard Kipling, Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Frost, A. A. Milne, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Alfred Noyes, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Browning, and Langston Hughes.

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The Academy of American Poets is a rich source of detailed information about individual poets. Click here for their web page on William Blake.

7 Read the text of some of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s greatest poems on the Academy of American Poets’ website.
9 For more detailed information on Robert Browning go to the Academy of American Poets’ website.
11 Read some of Edward Lear's fascinating poetry with this website.
13 Background information on Christina Rossetti and the world she lived in can be found on the Victorian Web.
15 Information on Rudyard Kipling’s house, Bateman’s, along with much other detail about his life and work, can be found on the Kipling Society website.
17 More detail on Hilaire Belloc can be found on the Academy of American Poets’ website .
21 Wikipedia has a wealth of detail on the poet Robert Frost.
23 A more detailed biography of Alfred Noyes is found on the Academy of American Poets’ website.
25 Loads of detail on Eleanor Farjeon’s life and work can be found on this storytelling website.
27 Find out more about A. A. Milne on the Pooh Corner website.
29 Go the Academy of American Poets’ website for more on Langston Hughes.