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1. This Victorian poet with his splendid side-whiskers is probably best known for his much-anthologised poem "Dover Beach", although "Thyrsis" and "The Scholar Gypsy" were also popular in their day. What is his name?
2. Born in 1757, this poet is equally important as an artist and engraver. His poetical works include "Songs of Innocence and Experience", "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and "Milton", all of which were first published with his own illustrations as an integral part of the text.
3. This dashing gent was as famous during his lifetime for his many love affairs as for his poetry. In between carrying on with a series of married women, he found time to write such works as "The Corsair", "Manfred", "Mazeppa", and the long narrative poem "Don Juan". He is George Gordon, Lord ... ?
4. This portrait by Alexander Nasmyth was painted in 1787, when its subject was in his late twenties. Generally regarded as Scotland's national poet, he is well known as the author of "Auld Lang Syne" as well as such poems as "To a Mouse", "Tam O'Shanter" and "Address to a Haggis". Who is he?
5. This fourteenth-century poet is shown here in a much later (seventeenth century) picture. If you don't recognise him as the author of "The Parlement of Foules", "The House of Fame" and "The Book of the Duchess", then mention of "The Canterbury Tales" should give away his identity. Who is he?
6. "Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink." is a couplet from this writer's most famous poem. It first appeared in the 1798 book entitled "Lyrical Ballads", written jointly by him and his good friend William Wordsworth. What is the name of this poet, one of the founders of the "Romantic Movement" in English poetry?
7. To show that not all poets writing in English are (a) English by birth and (b) male, this lady was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. Very few of her poems were published during her lifetime, and her first collection did not appear until 1890, four years after her death. Pictured here in a daguerreotype taken in around 1846/7, who is she?
8. It may seem hard to believe from this rakish portrait of him as a young man in around 1595, but this poet became an Anglican clergyman and held the important post of Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London. Later categorised as a "metaphysical poet", his best known works include the "Holy Sonnets", including that beginning "Death be not proud". Who is he?
9. This eighteenth-century poet is so inextricably linked with his most popular work, the "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", that it is popularly known as "...'s Elegy". What is his name?
10. The career of this nineteenth-century poet was cut tragically short when he died of tuberculosis in 1821 at the age of only 25. He is best known for his odes, including "To Autumn", "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale". What is his name?
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