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Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 64,234 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	9 Oct 2009 14:39
	Can you name six poets without looking them up? Primary school teachers were asked the question and only 10% could name 6, Very few could name more than 2. I will put mine on another post, no cheating, have a go. Both my OH and I named six with no problem, he had a couple different to me as well.
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 64,234 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	9 Oct 2009 14:39
	No cheating
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 64,234 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	9 Oct 2009 14:39
	Wordsworth Longfellow Shakespeare Byron Coleridge Keats
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 960 Send Message	Lancashire Witch	Report	9 Oct 2009 14:44
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 960 Send Message	Francis Mahoney Padric Colum Charles Kingsley William Butler Yeates Charles Kingsley Gilbert Keith Chesterton LW
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 960 Send Message	Lancashire Witch	Report	9 Oct 2009 14:45
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 960 Send Message	Oops, put Kingsley twice. Try Walt Whitman John Greenleaf Whittier LW
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	9 Oct 2009 14:47
	Betjemen Keats Wordsworth Milton Shakespeare Coleridge
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 36,149 Send Message	Rambling	Report	9 Oct 2009 14:58
	Dylan Thomas Robert Frost William Butler Yeats John Clare John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 36,149 Send Message	Rambling	Report	9 Oct 2009 14:59
	Can I throw in Walter de la Mare and Alfred Noyes as well please ? simply because each of them wrote one of my favourites lol xx
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Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 1,990 Send Message	Kate	Report	9 Oct 2009 15:00
	Sylvia Plath Shelley Shakespeare Roger McGough Emily Bronte Edmund Spencer (think that was his name - he wrote The Faerie Queen)
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 36,149 Send Message	Rambling	Report	9 Oct 2009 15:01
	PS isn't it awful that the teachers couldn't ? :( having said that I am not sure I could name 6 living poets..... xx
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Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 6,081 Send Message	me	Report	9 Oct 2009 15:02
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 6,081 Send Message	Wordsworth Longfellow Shakespeare Byron Coleridge Keats
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 141 Send Message	LindaAngela	Report	9 Oct 2009 15:03
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 141 Send Message	i'm a bit tick, owbout Pam Ayres
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 64,234 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	9 Oct 2009 15:23
	Keith, psychic or????
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 28,354 Send Message	KathleenBell	Report	9 Oct 2009 16:10
	Can I throw in Rudyard Kipling who wrote the country's (arguably) most popular poem - IF. Kath. x
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 64,234 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	9 Oct 2009 16:27
	You can Kathleen, he was one of my OH's poets.
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 4,304 Send Message	SheilaSomerset	Report	9 Oct 2009 16:41
	Some more, not yet mentioned: John Maesfield Rupert Brooke Siegfried Sassoon Emily Dickinson Gerald Manley Hopkins
	Researching: Gloucestershire, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, London, Lithuania, Russia
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 7,051 Send Message	PollyPoppet	Report	9 Oct 2009 16:47
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 7,051 Send Message	can i add Robert Burns or best known as Rabbie BURNS
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 534 Send Message	Susan	Report	10 Oct 2009 10:41
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 534 Send Message	Can I add. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Poet Laureate. Lady of Shallot Charge of the Light Brigade He is one of my favourites Sue x
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 28,517 Send Message	ButtercupFields	Report	10 Oct 2009 11:13
	Seamus Heaney Patrick Kavanagh Robert Service Oscar Wilde and Wendell Berry
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 2,563 Send Message	Karen in the desert	Report	10 Oct 2009 11:22
	Konstantin Simonov Wilfred Owen Siegfried Sassoon Rupert Brooke Christina Rosetti John Keats What a shame the teachers couldn't think of 6 poets' names. Poetry was a very big part of English when I was in school, primary and secondary, but perhaps it isn't now? Of those I named above, the first 4 are from when I did my English Lit O Level (WW1 poetry). K
	Researching: Researching: MILLS & ROBERTS Cambs: TAGG Thames Ditton & East Molesey, Surrey: LEETON/LEADON Hunts & Cambs: LLOYD London/Middx: FROST London/Middx: ROSKAS, KISELIUS, BUDAS W.Lothian & Lanarks: ROSKAS, JAKAS/JAKAITE, JUSKEVICIUS, MICKEVICIUS Lithuania

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