British poetry
England's literary tradition
Poetry written in or originating from Britain, spanning from Old English verse through medieval ballads, Shakespearean sonnets, Romantic odes, Victorian narrative poems, and modern free verse.
The term encompasses a vast tradition including Chaucer, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, and countless others: She studied British poetry at university.
Distinguished from American, Irish, or other Anglophone poetic traditions, though boundaries blur with poets who moved between countries.
- MedievalOf the 5th-15th centuries
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
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- NatureThe untamed world
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
Bloomsbury Group · Renaissance · Victorian · Elizabethan · iambic pentameter · blank verse · War · stiff upper lip · Celtic traditions · Symbolism · Limericks · Mythology · rhyming couplets · Georgian · Tennyson · Contemporary · Realism · Anglo-Saxon
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