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Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 36,149 Send Message	Rambling	Report	10 Oct 2009 17:07
	Re ' the Highwayman'...my teacher Mr Taggart at primary school in the Isle of Man , used to recite this to us, he made it so atmospheric, you could 'see' Bess stood with the musket beneath her breast.... 30 primary school children all holding their breath! xx
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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 5,141 Send Message	Harry	Report	10 Oct 2009 15:25
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 5,141 Send Message	Me and my four brothers plus, er er the daffodil chappie. Happy days
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 64,234 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	10 Oct 2009 15:12
	It is good to see that we on GR are able to name six poets at least and sometimes more. Sad that the teachers were unable to do so, agree with Uggers they should at least have been able to name Shakespeare, Shelley, Keats and Byron.
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,009 Send Message	Uggers	Report	10 Oct 2009 13:24
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,009 Send Message	The Highwayman was one of my grandmother's favourites, Mau - she could recite the whole thing. Years later when I was studying Eng Lit the lecturer brought it up as an example of bad poetry but I never really grasped why:)
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 960 Send Message	Lancashire Witch	Report	10 Oct 2009 13:23
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 960 Send Message	If you can't name 6 poets - could you name 6 peasants?? (doesn't matter if they are revolting) Lw as was
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 13,170 Send Message	Mauatthecoast	Report	10 Oct 2009 13:19
	Dylan Thomas John Betjeman R L Stevenson T.S.Elliot Longfellow Wordsworth ........and many.many more, I love poetry. When I was at school we had to learn many verses 'off by heart' one of my favourites was "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes I'm quite shocked only 10% of teachers could name 6
	Researching: In my own little world where everybody knows me... ..... best thing about happy memories is making them....
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 13,033 Send Message	**JulieAnn*.sprinkling fairydust*	Report	10 Oct 2009 12:37
	byron? i think he was, i not sure, i like the name, its also an area in the falklands, byron heights
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,009 Send Message	Uggers	Report	10 Oct 2009 11:49
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,009 Send Message	John Ashbery Christina Rossetti Wilfred Owen Dorothy Livesay William Wordsworth Andrew Marvell I think I could name loads without looking them up but these came to the front of my head first. I wouldn't expect people to be able to name 6 poets without thinking unless they liked poetry but I would have expected teachers of any level to be able to name at least Shelley, Keats, Byron and Shakespeare straight away.
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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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)

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