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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