British Romantic Poetry
The British Romantic poets occupy a pretty central position on the GRE for Lit. Some poets, like Keats, have lots of poems that are likely to appear on the exam; all the same, I think it's worth the time and the effort to read each and every poem I list here in their entirety a number of times. For those whose field is not 19th century British literature, like me, spending some time simply studying who wrote what may be in order since confusing a poem by Wordsworth and Coleridge, for example, is easy to do.
*William Wordsworth |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Lord Byron |
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
*John Keats |
William Blake |