British poets
Verse writers, UK
British poets are poets from or associated with Britain.
The term typically evokes a literary tradition spanning from Chaucer through Shakespeare, the Romantics, and the Victorians to modern figures: She studied the British poets of the nineteenth century.
In casual use, it may distinguish poets by nationality: Is Auden counted among the British poets or the American ones?
- NatureThe untamed world
- EnglishBritain's native tongue
- country houseGrand rural residence
- ScottishOf that northern kingdom
- MedievalOf the 5th-15th centuries
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