nature poems context

• portable paradise - ROGER ROBINSON - born in hackney london, jamaican father/english mother, born deaf, discovered at 6
• with birds you're never lonely - RAYMOND ANTROBUS - childhood in trinidad, return to UK
• lines written in early spring - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH - romantic poet, disregarding industrial revolution (only at the beginning) when people moved away from villages
• shall earth no more inspire thee - EMILY BRONTE - romantic period (people and natural world) women not regarded with power
• homing - LIZ BERRY - black country dialect focus (anglo-saxon)
• name journeys - RAMAN MUNDAIR - born in india, moved to england at 5
• a wider view - SENI SENEVIRATNE - mum from yorkshire, interest in architecture and buildings
• in a london drawingroom - GEORGE ELLIOT - woman writer MARY ANN-EVANS, hidden in patriarchal victorian society. explores changes in the city (industrial revolution) romantic poetry
• like and heiress - GRACE NICHOLLS - born in guyana, moved to UK return back to geogre town
• a jewellery maker - LOUISA ADJOA PARKER - ghanian and english, giving a voice to marginalised voices
• England in 1819 - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY - corn laws and Peterloo massacre triggered the poem, romantic poet, beginning of 19th century, protest against King George lll