British Poetry: A Greatest Hits List Titles Poets Historical Periods/ Lit. Movements Literary Key Words “Barbara Allen” “Scarborough Faire” minstrels Medieval Period ballad narrative poetry Sonnet 29 “One Day I Her Name” William Shakespeare Edmund Spenser Renaissance or Elizabethan Age 16th Century Shakespearean Sonnet Spenserian Sonnet “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” Christopher Marlowe Sir Walter Raleigh Renaissance or Elizabethan Age pastoral “Death Be Not Proud” “Death” John Donne George Herbert 17th Century Jacobean era Metaphysical poetry literary conceit (extended metaphor) “To His Coy Mistress” “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time” Andrew Marvell Robert Herrick 17th Century Cavalier Poetry Carpe diem (car-PAY DEE-em) “Tyger, Tyger” and “Little Lamb” by William Blake “The Is Too Much with Us,” “I Wandered Lonely” by William Wordsworth “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley Late 18th 19th Century Romanticism “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “The World Is Too Much” “She Walks in Beauty” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” “Ozymandias” William Wordsworth Lord Byron John Keats Percy B. Shelley 19th Century Romanticism lyric ode
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” “The Secret of the Machines” “My Last Duchess” “Porphyria’s Lover” Alfred Lord Tennyson Rudyard Kipling Robert Browning Robert Browning The Victorian Era (1830-1901) Industrial Revolution Elegy Narrative poem Dramatic Monologue Gothic et Decorum Est” “The Hollow Men” Wilfred Owen T.S. Eliot Early 20th Century Modernist poetry social commentary stream of consciousness free verse Research Project: British Poetry
Poets Literary Movement(s) Historical Context Stylistic Features and Themes The Medieval Period: Poetry Barbara Allen In Scarlet town, where I was born, There was a fair maid dwellin’, Made every youth cry Well-a-way! Her name was Barbara All in the merry month of May, When green buds they were swellin’, Young Jemmy Grove on his death-bed lay, For love of Barbara Allen.
Melodious birds sing Madrigals. And I will make thee beds of Roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle; A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty Lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold; A belt of straw and Ivy buds, With Coral clasps and Amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love. The Shepherds’ Swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May-morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me, and be my love. The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh If all the and love were young, And truth in every Shepherd’s tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee, and be thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When Rivers rage and Rocks grow cold, And Philomel becometh dumb, The rest complains of to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields, To wayward winter reckoning yields, A tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall. Thy thy shoes, thy beds of Roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and Ivy buds, The Coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love. But could youth last, and love still breed, Had joys no date, nor age no need, Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee, and be thy love. The 17th Century: Background Information Literary Movement(s)