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Born July 13, 1793 • England
Died May 20, 1864 (aged 70) • Northampton • England
Notable Works “Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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William Blake
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Lord Byron
British poet
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Keats, John
John Keats
British poet
Thomas Chatterton.
Thomas Chatterton
British poet
Felicia Hemans, detail from an engraving by W. Holl after a portrait by W.E. West (1788–1857)
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
English poet
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
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James Beattie
Scottish poet
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English novelist
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Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Norwegian author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
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Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Lermontov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer
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Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
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Adam Mickiewicz
Polish poet
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic

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