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Where they were from
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Century
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Famous Poem
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Other Facts
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Answer
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Chicago,
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20th
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"Where the Sidewalk Ends"
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Dark Humor
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Shel Silverstein
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Walworth, London
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19th
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"My Last Duchess"
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Dramatic Monologues
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Robert Browning
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Missouri.
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19th
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“Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d.”
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Greatest Humorist, Haley's Comet
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Mark Twain
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Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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20th
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"i carry your heart with me"
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WW1 Internment Camp
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E. E. Cummings
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London.
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18th-19th
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"The Tyger"
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Painter and Poet of the Romantic Age
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William Blake
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London
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17th
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"Paradise Lost"
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Politics
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John Milton
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Boston Massachusetts
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19th
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"Uriel"
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Transcendentalism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hyderabad, India
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20th
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"The Bird of Time"
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Indian Independence
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Sarojini Naidu
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Florence, Italy
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13th-14th
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"The Divine Comedy"
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Humanist
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Dante Alighieri
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Rye, New York
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20th
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"Candy is Dandy"
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Humor/Children
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Ogden Nash
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Dublin, Ireland
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19th
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"A Vision"
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Put on trial for gross indecency after his affair with a male British aristocrat
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Oscar Wilde
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Hailey, Idaho
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20th
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“Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
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Early Modernist
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Ezra Pound
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Smyrna (present-day Greece)
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8th-7th Century BC
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"The Iliad
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Foundational Works
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Homer
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Boston, Massachusetts.
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19th
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"The Raven"
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Ushered in an era of Dark Romanticism.
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Stratford-Upon-Avon
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16th-17th
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"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day"
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Wrote many plays, referred to as "The Bard"
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William Shakespeare
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Concord Massachusetts
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19th
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"Walden, or Life in the Woods"
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Transcendentalism
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Henry David Thoreau
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Lesbos, Greece
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6th century BC
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"Blame Aphrodite"
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Lesbian Icon
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Sappho
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London.
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19th
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“A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)”
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2nd generation Romantic
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John Keats
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Kensington, London
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20th
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"Mrs Dalloway"
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Stream of Consciousness, Drowned
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Virginia Woolf
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Tang Empire
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8th
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"Quiet Night Through"
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Considered the most important Chinese poet
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Li Bai
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London
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19th
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"Goblin Market"
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Children's poems
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Christina Rosetti
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Boston Massachusetts.
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20th
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"Daddy"
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Alienation
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Sylvia Plath
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London
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17th
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"No Man is an Island"
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Dean of St Paul's Cathedral
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John Donne
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Bombay Presidency, British India.
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19th-20th
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"Gunga Din"
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Also wrote "The Jungle Book"
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Rudyard Kipling
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Dublin, Ireland
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19th-20th
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"The Second Coming"
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Irish Literary Revival
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William Butler Yeats
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Horsham
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19th
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"Ode to a Nightingale"
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Drowned, 2nd Generation Romantic
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Percy Byshe Shelly
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Long Island, New York.
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19th
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"I Hear America Singing"
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"Father of Free Verse"
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Walt Whitman
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London
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19th
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"She walks in Beauty"
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Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Byron
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Joplin, Missouri.
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20th
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"I too Sing America"
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One of the earliest innovators of "Jazz Poetry"
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Langston Hughes
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St. Louis
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20th
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"The Waste Land"
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Modernist, reinvigorated art through language
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T. S. Eliot
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Dorset, England.
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19th
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"Hap"
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Victorian Realist, Romanticism
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Thomas Hardy
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Cheshire, England
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19th
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"Jabberwocky"
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Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
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Portland Maine
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19th
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“The Song of Hiawatha”
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Translated "The Divine Comedy" to English
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Parral, Chile.
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20th
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“I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You”
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Senator of the Republic of Chile
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Pablo Neruda
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Durham England
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19th
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"How Do I love Thee"
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Wrote about social issues
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Lincolnshire, England
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19th
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“The Charge of the Light Brigade”
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Member of the House of Lords
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Amherst, Massachusetts,
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19th
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""Hope" is the thing with the feathers"
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Transcendentalism and Romanticism
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Emily Dickinson
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St. Louis.
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20th-21st
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"On the Pulse of Evening"
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Civil Right's activist, wrote plays movie and TV shows for more than 50 years
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Maya Angelou
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San Francisco,
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20th
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"The Road Not Taken"
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Rural New England Life
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Robert Frost
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Cumberland England
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18th-19th
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"The Prelude"
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Launched the Romantic Age
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William Wordsworth
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