English Poetry (1789-1902)

English Poetry (1789-1902) is an interactive resource designed to introduce you to the key ideas and terminology needed to analyse poetry. Brought to life with audiovisual reading features, quizzes and activities, it explores some of the best-known English poets of the Romantic and Victorian eras.

Featured poets and poems:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnet 43
William Blake - A Poison Tree, London
Robert Browning - My Last Duchess, Porphyria's Lover
Lord Byron - The Destruction of Sennacherib
Thomas Hardy - Neutral Tones, The Man He Killed
John Keats - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Christina Rossetti - Cousin Kate
Percy Shelley - Ozymandias
Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade
William Wordsworth - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Stealing the Boat

Includes detailed analysis plus activities for 14 poems from a range of exam boards for GCSE English Literature.

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