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William Blake´s poem describes impressions of London and its inhabitants. The voice of the poem walks through the city and gives a description of what he sees.

London evokes a strong atmosphere of darkness and desperation. The poem shows how people lived and died in London in the 18th and19th century.

• The text of the poem
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Edward Field (*1924) was born in Brooklyn, New York. After his service in World War II and a short time at New York University, Field went to Europe in 1946 and focused on his writing. In the 1960´s and `70´s Field was able to support himself by reading his poetry out in public.

Throughout his career, Field has published numerous works, not only poetry, but he has collaborated on novels and written the narration for the documentary film To Be Alive. The poem “New York” was published in the collection A Full Heart in 1977.

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William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet and painter. He is considered as one of the most important personalities in English history of art and literature.
This material deals with the poem A Poison Tree which forms part of the book Songs of Experience, Blake´s famous collection of poetry.
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Philip Arthur Larkin(1922-1985) was an English poet, novelist and music critic. He was offered the Poet Laureateship (he declined) and his works still are among the most popular in Great Britain. Nowadays Philip Larkin is regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.

This material deals with the poem This Be The Verse which is Larkin´s most popular poem and one of the most frequently quoted poems of England in general.

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The English Poet Edward James (Ted) Hughes is commonly regarded as on of the best writers of generetion. 1984 he was appointed British poet laureate.
Besides his very famous and popular children stories, Ted Hughes is known for his versatile poetry. This material deals with one of his earlier works Hawk Roosting.
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William Blake (1757-1827) was an English painter, printmaker and poet. His career as an artist started with an apprenticeship as an engraver; later he opened his own printing plant.

During his lifetime, Blake published several etchings and poems, but his artistic worth was only fully appreciated after his death.

The poem “A Divine Image” was first published in 1794 in the volume Songs of Experience.

• The poem A Divine Image
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The English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is a major representative of the period of Romanticism.
In addition to his famous publication Lyrical Ballads (1789) which he published in cooperation with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth wrote many romantic poems. In this text, his sonnet The World is too much with us will be analyzed.
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Robert Frost (1874 -1963), after two failed attempts for an education, tried to support himself in any possible way – as a teacher and a farmer. Not failing at both, his first poem was not very successfully published in 1894. Frost only became a successful writer under the tutelage of Ezra Pound when he came to England in 1912.·
Nowadays he is considered one of the greatest American poets.
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Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848) was a British novelist and poet. She is a representative of the Victorian era in British literature.
Besides her only but nevertheless famous novel Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily published with her sisters Anne and Charlotte a collection of poems. This material deals with her poem Hope.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer. He is best known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, but he also published a number of other works.
Among these other works are several historical novels as well as volumes of poems. The poem “A Parable” was published in the volume “Songs of Action” in 1898.
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Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was a British poet and soldier. He became famous as one of the leading poets of England during the First World War.
Anthem for Doomed Youth is one of Owen´s most popular poems as it describes the shocking reality of war.
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist and satirist. He is less well known for his poetry than his satirical prose. The work which Swift became most famous for is his novel Gulliver´s Travels, first published in 1726.
This material deals with one of his poems, “A Description of the Morning”.
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