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 ''Christmas'' (1954) describes the traditions of Christmas time and how they compare to the story of the birth of Christ.
-''Diary of a Church Mouse'' (1961) is a satirical look, through the eyes of a mouse, at the relationship humans have with their church.
+''Diary of a Church Mouse'' (1961) is a satirical look, through the eyes of a mouse, at the relationship humans have with their church.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Laurence Binyon''' - ''For the Fallen'' (1914) is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services and includes the lines “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them”.
 '''William Blake''' was a poet and artist.
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 ''The Walrus and the Carpenter'' (1871) appeared in the novel ''Through the Looking-Glass''. The poem is recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice.
-''The Hunting of the Snark'' (1876) follows a crew trying to hunt the Snark, a creature which may turn out to be a highly dangerous ''Boojum''. The crew consists of ten members, whose descriptions all begin with the letter B.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Literature - Childrens|Literature - Childrens]]</blockquote>'''Thomas Carew''' was a member of the Cavalier group of poets.
+''The Hunting of the Snark'' (1876) follows a crew trying to hunt the Snark, a creature which may turn out to be a highly dangerous ''Boojum''. The crew consists of ten members, whose descriptions all begin with the letter B.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Literature - Childrens|Literature - Childrens]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Thomas Carew''' was a member of the Cavalier group of poets.
 ''An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Paul’s, Dr. John Donne'' (1633) presents the claim that John Donne was a class of poet far above his peers.
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 ''Samson Agonistes'' (1671) is a tragedy that was published alongside ''Paradise Regained''. It is a dramatization of the story of Samson from the Book of Judges in the Old Testament. Last line: “And calm of mind, all passion spent”.
-''Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634)'' includes the phrase “silver lining”.
+''Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634)'' includes the phrase “silver lining”.<blockquote>For other works by this author see:  [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Andrew Motion''' was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. He founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work.
 ''On the Record'' (2003) is a poem written for Prince William’s 21st birthday.
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 '''Octavio Paz''' was a Mexican poet and diplomat. He was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
-''Sunstone'' (1957) is one of Paz’s best-known poems. It is based on the circular Aztec calendar and consists of a single cyclical sentence reflecting the synodic period of the planet Venus.
+''Sunstone'' (1957) is one of Paz’s best-known poems. It is based on the circular Aztec calendar and consists of a single cyclical sentence reflecting the synodic period of the planet Venus.<blockquote>For other works by this author see:  [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Fernando Pessoa''' was born in Lisbon and was one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He used the concept of the heteronym to refer to at least 70 imaginary characters to write in different styles, including Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis.
 ''Mensagem'' (''Message'', 1934) was Pessoa’s only book written in Portuguese to be published during his lifetime.
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 ''Astrophil and Stella'' (1591) is a group of 108 sonnets. Astrophil is the star lover, and Stella is his star.
-''The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia'' (1593) is a long prose pastoral romance. The original version of the text is sometimes referred to as the ''Old Arcadia'', and a revised version is known as the ''New Arcadia''. Arcadia is a peaceful and quiet province of Greece and it is ruled by Duke Basilius.
+''The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia'' (1593) is a long prose pastoral romance. The original version of the text is sometimes referred to as the ''Old Arcadia'', and a revised version is known as the ''New Arcadia''. Arcadia is a peaceful and quiet province of Greece and it is ruled by Duke Basilius.<blockquote>For other works by this author see:  [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Edith Sitwell''' was the eldest of the three literary Sitwells.
 ''Facade'' (1922) is a series of abstract poems set to music by William Walton.
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 ''Tender Buttons'' (1912) is a book separated into three sections – Food, Objects, and Rooms. It consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane.
-"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is a quote from the 1913 poem ''Sacred Emily'', which appeared in the 1922 book ''Geography and Plays.''<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - USA|Novels - USA]]</blockquote>'''Robert Louis Stevenson''' - ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' (1885) is a volume of 64 poems for children.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - British Isles|Novels - British Isles]] / [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Childrens|Literature - Childrens]]</blockquote>'''John Suckling''' was a Cavalier poet who also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem ''Ballade upon a Wedding.''
+"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is a quote from the 1913 poem ''Sacred Emily'', which appeared in the 1922 book ''Geography and Plays.''<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - USA|Novels - USA]]</blockquote>'''Robert Louis Stevenson''' - ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' (1885) is a volume of 64 poems for children.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - British Isles|Novels - British Isles]] / [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Childrens|Literature - Childrens]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''John Suckling''' was a Cavalier poet who also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem ''Ballade upon a Wedding.''
 '''Alfred, Lord Tennyson''' was Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death in 1892. He was the first individual to be raised to a British peerage for his writing.
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 ''Henriade'' (1723) – is an epic poem written in honour of Henry IV of France.
-''The Maid of Orleans'' (1730) – is an unfinished satirical poem concerning Joan of Arc. The poem was outlawed, burned and banned throughout much of Europe.
+''The Maid of Orleans'' (1730) – is an unfinished satirical poem concerning Joan of Arc. The poem was outlawed, burned and banned throughout much of Europe.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - World|Novels - World]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction|Literature - Non-Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Derek Walcott''' was born in St. Lucia. He was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 ''Omeros'' (1990) is an epic poem, a reworking of Homeric story and tradition into a journey around the Caribbean and beyond to the American West and London.

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 '''Guillaume Apollinaire''' was a French poet of Polish-Belorussian descent who was born in Rome. He is credited with coining the terms Cubism, Orphism, and Surrealism. He died during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
-''Alcools'' (1913) – first major collection of poems.
+''Alcools'' (1913) – first major collection of poems.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]]</blockquote>'''Ludovico Ariosto''' was an Italian poet best known as the author of the romance epic ''Orlando Furioso.''
 ''Orlando Furioso'' (1516) is a chivalric romance that takes place against the background of the war between the Christian emperor Charlemagne and the Saracen King of Africa, Agramante. Orlando is the Christian knight known in French and English as Roland. The poem is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's ''Orlando Innamorato.''
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 ''Tender Buttons'' (1912) is a book separated into three sections – Food, Objects, and Rooms. It consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane.
-"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is a quote from the 1913 poem ''Sacred Emily'', which appeared in the 1922 book ''Geography and Plays.''<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - USA|Novels - USA]]</blockquote>'''Robert Louis Stevenson''' - ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' (1885) is a volume of 64 poems for children.
+"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is a quote from the 1913 poem ''Sacred Emily'', which appeared in the 1922 book ''Geography and Plays.''<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - USA|Novels - USA]]</blockquote>'''Robert Louis Stevenson''' - ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' (1885) is a volume of 64 poems for children.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - British Isles|Novels - British Isles]] / [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Childrens|Literature - Childrens]]</blockquote>'''John Suckling''' was a Cavalier poet who also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem ''Ballade upon a Wedding.''
 '''Alfred, Lord Tennyson''' was Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death in 1892. He was the first individual to be raised to a British peerage for his writing.

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 ''And Still I Rise'' (1978) is a collection of poems.
 '''Ludovico Ariosto''' was an Italian poet best known as the author of the romance epic ''Orlando Furioso.''
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 ''The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'' (1912) is named after Brooke’s house near Cambridge. First line: “Just now the lilac is in bloom”. Last line: “Stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?”.
 '''Elizabeth Barrett Browning''' was married to Robert Browning.
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 ''The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'' was first published during 1871 as part of the book ''Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets''. Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds.
 '''Christopher Logue''' - ''War Music'' (1981) is a modernist poem based on Homer's ''Iliad.''
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 ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'' (1831) is a fairy tale in verse. The youngest of three sisters is chosen by Tsar Saltan to be his wife, and the other two sisters become jealous. Adapted into an opera by Rimsky-Korsakov.
-''The Bronze Horseman'' (1833) is about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg and the great flood of 1824.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - World|Novels - World]] / [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] / [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]]</blockquote>'''Arthur''' '''Rimbaud''' was a French poet known for his surreal themes. He was involved in a stormy relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine.
+''The Bronze Horseman'' (1833) is about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg and the great flood of 1824.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - World|Novels - World]] / [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] / [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]]</blockquote>'''Salvatore Quasimodo''' was an Italian poet who the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959. Quasimodo used a hermetical, "closed" language to sketch recurring motifs like Sicily, religion and death.
 ''A Season in Hell'' (1873) is a long prose poem separated out into nine complex sections.
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 ''Tender Buttons'' (1912) is a book separated into three sections – Food, Objects, and Rooms. It consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane.
-"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is a quote from the 1913 poem ''Sacred Emily'', which appeared in the 1922 book ''Geography and Plays.''<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - USA|Novels - USA]]</blockquote>'''John Suckling''' was a Cavalier poet who also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem ''Ballade upon a Wedding.''
+"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is a quote from the 1913 poem ''Sacred Emily'', which appeared in the 1922 book ''Geography and Plays.''<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - USA|Novels - USA]]</blockquote>'''Robert Louis Stevenson''' - ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' (1885) is a volume of 64 poems for children.
 '''Alfred, Lord Tennyson''' was Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death in 1892. He was the first individual to be raised to a British peerage for his writing.
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 ''Ballade des Pendus'' (''Ballad of the Hanged'', 1462) was written while under the sentence of death. Villon imagines himself hanging on the scaffold, his body rotting, and he makes a plea to God against the “justice” of men.
 '''Derek Walcott''' was born in St. Lucia. He was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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 ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'' (1831) is a fairy tale in verse. The youngest of three sisters is chosen by Tsar Saltan to be his wife, and the other two sisters become jealous. Adapted into an opera by Rimsky-Korsakov.
-''The Bronze Horseman'' (1833) is about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg and the great flood of 1824.
+''The Bronze Horseman'' (1833) is about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg and the great flood of 1824.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - World|Novels - World]] / [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] / [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]]</blockquote>'''Arthur''' '''Rimbaud''' was a French poet known for his surreal themes. He was involved in a stormy relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine.
 ''A Season in Hell'' (1873) is a long prose poem separated out into nine complex sections.
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 ''Counter-Attack and Other Poems'' (1918) is a collection of war poems.
-''Everyone Sang'' (1919) is one of Sassoon’s most popular poems. The jubilant singing that features in the poem has been interpreted as a reference to the Armistice.
+''Everyone Sang'' (1919) is one of Sassoon’s most popular poems. The jubilant singing that features in the poem has been interpreted as a reference to the Armistice.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - British Isles|Novels - British Isles]]</blockquote>'''Friedrich Schiller'''
-'''Walter Scott'''
+''Ode to Joy'' (1785) is best known for its use by Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]]</blockquote>'''Walter Scott'''
 ''Marmion'' (1808) is a historical romance in verse that concludes with the Battle of Flodden in 1513. Includes the lines "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!".
-''The Lady of the Lake'' (1810) is a narrative poem. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. It retells a legend about the graceful feudal heroine Ellen Douglas.
+''The Lady of the Lake'' (1810) is a narrative poem. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. It retells a legend about the graceful feudal heroine Ellen Douglas.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - British Isles|Novels - British Isles]] / [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Robert W'''(illiam) '''Service''' was a British-Canadian poet, born in Lancashire. Working as a bank clerk, he was sent to the Yukon, where he wrote several poems inspired by the Klondike Gold Rush.
 ''Songs of a Sourdough'' (1907) was published under the title ''The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses''. The book is well known for its verse about the Klondike Gold Rush including ''The Shooting of Dan McGrew'' with its opening stanza: “A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune; Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou”.
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 ''Tender Buttons'' (1912) is a book separated into three sections – Food, Objects, and Rooms. It consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane.
-"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is a quote from the 1913 poem ''Sacred Emily'', which appeared in the 1922 book ''Geography and Plays.''
+"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is a quote from the 1913 poem ''Sacred Emily'', which appeared in the 1922 book ''Geography and Plays.''<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - USA|Novels - USA]]</blockquote>'''John Suckling''' was a Cavalier poet who also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem ''Ballade upon a Wedding.''
 '''Alfred, Lord Tennyson''' was Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death in 1892. He was the first individual to be raised to a British peerage for his writing.
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 ''Do not gentle into that good night'' (1952) is a villanelle to Thomas’s dying father that has no title other than its first line, "Do not go gentle into that good night", a line that appears as a refrain throughout the poem along with its other refrain, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light".
-''Fern Hill'' (1945) concerns Thomas’s childhood experiences at his aunt's farm in Wales.
+''Fern Hill'' (1945) concerns Thomas’s childhood experiences at his aunt's farm in Wales.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]]</blockquote>'''Edward Thomas''' was an Anglo-Welsh war poet who enlisted in the army in 1915 and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917. The American poet Robert Frost encouraged Thomas to write poetry.
 ''Adlestrop'' is based on a railway journey Thomas took in 1914, during which his train stopped at the now-closed station in the Gloucestershire village of Adlestrop.
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 '''Oscar Wilde'''
-''The'' ''Ballad of Reading Gaol'' (1898) was the last work written by Wilde. It is a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. First line: “He did not wear the scarlet coat for blood and wine are red”.
+''The'' ''Ballad of Reading Gaol'' (1898) was the last work written by Wilde. It is a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. First line: “He did not wear the scarlet coat for blood and wine are red”.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - British Isles|Novels - British Isles]] / [[Entertainment/Plays|Plays]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Childrens|Literature - Childrens]]</blockquote>'''Alfred Williams''' – was known as the ‘Hammerman Poet’ because he worked in the Swindon Railway Works. ''Songs in Wiltshire'' (1909) was his first collection of poems.
 '''William Wordsworth''' visited Revolutionary France in 1791 and became enthralled with the Republican movement. He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their child, Caroline. He later married Mary Hutchinson. Lived at Dove Cottage in Grasmere with his sister Dorothy. Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

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 ''Troilus and Crisedye'' retells the tragic story of Troilus and Cressida. Source of the phrase “all good things must come to an end”.
-'''''Chretien de Troyes''' is best known for his five Arthurian romance poems, ''Erec; Cligès; Lancelot, ou Le Chevalier à la charrette; Yvain, ou Le Chevalier au lion and Perceval, ou Le Conte du Graal, written between 1170 and 1181.
+'''Chretien de Troyes''' is best known for his five Arthurian romance poems, ''Erec; Cligès; Lancelot, ou Le Chevalier à la charrette; Yvain, ou Le Chevalier au lion and Perceval, ou Le Conte du Graal'', written between 1170 and 1181.
 '''John Clare''' was known as the “Peasant Poet” and died in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum in 1864.