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William Wordsworth famously said that after the publication of Lyrical Ballads (co-authored with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798), he "awoke and found himself famous."

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Robert Browning is known for his use of dramatic monologues, a form

Where a single character speaks to an implied audience, revealing personal thoughts and feelings.

One of his famous works in this form is "My Last Duchess."

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The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.

Books I–III were first published in 1590

Then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI

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Sassoon and Brooke was an English war writer

They became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

Rupert Chawner Brooke was known for his idealistic war sonnets

Written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier"

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Siegfried Sassoon is best remembered for his angry poems about World War I,

Such as:

• The Old Huntsman (1917) 
• Counterattack (1918)