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John Keats

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An English Romantic poet. He is known for his odes, such as 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', and for his concept of 'negative capability'.

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William Wordsworth

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An English poet who was a central figure in the Romantic movement. He is best known for 'Lyrical Ballads' and 'The Prelude'.

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Robert Burns

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A Scottish poet and lyricist, often regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and best known for 'Auld Lang Syne' and 'Tam o' Shanter'.

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Mary Shelley

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An English novelist, best known for her Gothic novel 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'.

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William Blake

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An English poet, painter, and printmaker, whose visionary works are notable for their expressiveness and mystical themes. His key works include 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' and 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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An English poet, philosopher, and critic. Major works include 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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An English Romantic poet considered one of the finest lyric poets in the English language. Notable works include 'Ozymandias' and 'Prometheus Unbound'.

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Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)

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A leading figure of the Romantic movement, known for his flamboyance and works such as 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' and 'Don Juan'.

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Jane Austen

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An English novelist known for her six major novels set among the British landed gentry, including 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Sense and Sensibility'.

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Leigh Hunt

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An English critic, essayist, poet and writer. His works include 'Abou Ben Adhem' and his critical essays were impactful in the Romantic period.

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Thomas Moore

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An Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of 'The Minstrel Boy' and 'The Last Rose of Summer'.

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Sir Walter Scott

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A Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. His notable works include 'Ivanhoe' and 'Rob Roy', and the narrative poem 'The Lady of the Lake'.

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William Hazlitt

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An English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He published 'The Spirit of the Age'.

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Felicia Hemans

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An English poet who wrote the popular opening lines 'The boy stood on the burning deck'. Her notable collections include 'Records of Woman' and 'The Forest Sanctuary'.

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Thomas De Quincey

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An English essayist and critic, famous for his 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'.

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Dorothy Wordsworth

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An English author, poet and diarist, she was the sister of William Wordsworth. Her works include 'The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals'.

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Mary Tighe

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An Irish poet, best remembered for her poem 'Psyche', which was a significant influence on Keats's 'Ode to Psyche'.

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James Hogg

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A Scottish poet and novelist who wrote in both Scots and English. Known as the 'Ettrick Shepherd', he is best remembered for 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'.

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Charles Lamb

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An English essayist and poet, best known for 'Essays of Elia' and 'Tales from Shakespeare', co-authored with his sister Mary Lamb.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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A prominent English poet of the Victorian era known for her political and social views, as captured in poems like 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'.

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John Clare

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An English poet who wrote about rural life and landscape. His major works include 'Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery' and 'The Rural Muse'.

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Mary Robinson

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An English author and actress, who was also known for her relationship with the Prince of Wales. Her literary works include 'Sappho and Phaon' and 'Lyrical Tales'.

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Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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A prominent English poet, essayist, and children's author. Her work reflects an emphasis on freedom and abolitionism, including 'Eighteen Hundred and Eleven'.

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Joanna Baillie

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A Scottish poet and dramatist, admired by contemporaries like Sir Walter Scott, known for her collection 'Poems, Wherein It Is Attempted to Describe Certain Views of Nature and of Rustic Manners'.

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Thomas Love Peacock

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An English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He wrote satirical novels such as 'Nightmare Abbey' and 'Crotchet Castle'.

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John Gibson Lockhart

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A Scottish writer and editor known for his acerbic critiques and his biography of his father-in-law, Sir Walter Scott.

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