19th Century Poets

The 19th century was the age of poetry.

Poetry has been around in various incarnations since humans first put hand to pen....and probably even earlier; there is much scholarly belief that the earliest forms of metaphor and poetic expression spurred the very evolution of communication and language itself.

And though some of the most imaginative and creative poetry was created centuries earlier. For example: Tu Fu of the Tang Dynasty in China wrote in the seventh century B.C., William Shakespeare wrote his famous sonnets in the 16th century, Dante wrote his Inferno in the thirteenth century. For many, it is in the nineteenth century where poetry reaches its peek.

Included here are short biographies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percey Bysshe Shelley, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, and some of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century, along with examples of of their work.