"I carry your heart with me(I carry it in my heart)I am never without it"

- E.E. Cummings

Lord Byron

“ She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes;Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies."- Lord Byron (She walks in beauty)

1788: Born in London 1794: Inherits the title Lord Byron 1815: Marries Annabella Millbanke. 1816: Leaves England for the last time. 1824: He dies.

George Gorden or Lord Byron

William Blake

“ To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour.”- William Blake (Auguries of Innocence.)

Born -1757 Starts at the Royal Academy -1779 Marries Catherine Boucher -1782 Publishes Songs of Innocence -1789 Died -1827

William Blake

John Clare

“ I ne'er was struck before that hour With love so sudden and so sweet, Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower And stole my heart away complete. My face turned pale as deadly pale. My legs refused to walk away, And when she looked, what could I ail? My life and all seemed turned to clay."- John Clare (First Love)

1793: Born in Helpston, Northamptonshire 1806: Works as a pot boy at the Blue Bell Inn 1837: Admitted to High Beach Asylum 1864: Dies

John Clare

Percy Bysshe Shelly

“ The keen stars were twinklingAnd the fair moon was rising among them,Dear Jane:The guitar was tinkling,But the notes were not sweet till you sung themAgain."- Percy Bysshe Shelly ( To Jane)

1792: Born in Sussex 1811: Marries Harriet Westbrook 1811: Publishes Necessity of Atheism 1814: Elopes with Mary WolstenCraft Godwin 1816: Befriends Lord Byron 1822: Dies in Italy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slantedDown the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !A savage place ! as holy and enchantedAs e'er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon-lover !"- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Kubla Khan)

1772: Born 1794: First poems published 1797: Meets Wordsworth 1798: Publishes Lyrical Ballads 1834: Dies

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

“ A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its lovliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; "- John Keats (A Thing Of Beauty)

1795: Born in London 1814: Gives up his surgeon apprenticeship 1816: Publishes his first poem 1820: Moves to Italy to improve his health 1821: Dies in Rome

John Keats

William Wordsworth

“ I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils”- William Wordsworth (Daffodils)

1770: Born in Cockermouth, Cumberland 1790: Travels to France 1798: Publishes Lyrical Ballads with Coireridge 1843: Becomes Poet Laureate 1850: Dies

William Wordsworth