February 9: Big Six Romanitc Poets

On In Our Time, Jonathan Bate said that in the early 1970s there were six big romantic poets to study:

• William Blake (1757-1827)
• Lord Byron (1788-1824)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
• John Keats (1795-1821)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
• William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

February 1: Falling Awake by Alice Oswald

Won the Costa Book Award for Poetry for this book.

Heard  her read a few poems on the Vintage Podcast.

I did not  enjoy them.