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Love and Relationships poets

Who they are, in a few lines. Tap one for their quotes.

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Lord Byron →

Famous, scandalous, dead at 36. When We Two Parted is about a real affair he could not talk about.

Percy Bysshe Shelley →

Romantic poet. Love's Philosophy is the world's most elegant attempt to get a kiss.

Robert Browning →

Wrote poems in the voices of murderers and dukes. Porphyria's Lover is one of them.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning →

Wrote 44 love sonnets to Robert Browning before they married in secret. Sonnet 29 is one.

Thomas Hardy →

Novelist and poet. Neutral Tones is about a love that ended by a pond.

Charlotte Mew →

A poet Hardy called the best woman poet of her day. The Farmer's Bride is in a farmer's voice.

C. Day-Lewis →

Poet Laureate. Walking Away is about his own son, Sean, at his first football match.

Charles Causley →

Cornish poet. Eden Rock is a real place near his childhood home.

Seamus Heaney →

Irish farmer's son, Nobel Prize. Follower is about his father.

Simon Armitage →

Poet Laureate. Mother, any distance is from a book about leaving home.

Carol Ann Duffy →

Poet Laureate. Before You Were Mine is about her mother in 1950s Glasgow.

Owen Sheers →

Welsh poet. Winter Swans is set by a lake after an argument.

Maura Dooley →

Poet and editor. Letters from Yorkshire is about a friend who wrote to her from the north.

Daljit Nagra →

Born in London to Punjabi parents. Singh Song! is in the voice of a shopkeeper in love.

Andrew Waterhouse →

Poet and environmentalist, died at 43. Climbing My Grandfather is his best-known poem.

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The words of the book come from the AQA Poems Past and Present anthology, Love and Relationships cluster (poems quoted briefly for study; older poems are public domain). Every quote was checked against it. Paintings and drawings are public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, credited under each one. Notes by Akash Wadhwani. Copy it. Print it. Share it. No sign-up.
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