The Literary World
Poets of the Victorian Era
The Victorian era takes its name from Queen Victoria of England, who ruled from 1837 to 1901.
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Emily Dickinson (born 1830, died 1886)
Reclusive American poet whose radical poetic style anticipated the modernist movement.
- Wrote ''''There''s a certain slant of light''''
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (born 1806, died 1861)
English poet. Wife of poet Robert Browning.
- Wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese
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Christina Rossetti (born 1830, died 1894)
English poet and artist's model.
- Wrote Goblin Market
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (born 1861, died 1907)
English poet and novelist. Great-great-grandniece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- Wrote The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
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Alice Meynell (born 1847, died 1922)
English poet and essayist.
- Wrote Preludes
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Lucy Larcom (born 1824, died 1893)
American poet, editor and educator.
- Wrote A New England Girlhood
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Frances E. W. Harper (born 1825, died 1911)
American poet and novelist.
- Known for her abolitionist verse
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Julia Ward Howe (born 1819, died 1910)
American poet, suffragist, and peace activist.
- Wrote ''''The Battle Hymn of the Republic''''
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Emma Lazarus (born 1849, died 1887)
American poet.
- Wrote ''''The New Colossus,'''' which is engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (born 1850, died 1919)
American poet.
- Wrote Poems of Passion
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