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- Manhunt is about the Bosnian conflict
- Simon Armitage is English
- Simon Armitage is from Durham
- Sonnet 43 was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Sonnet 43 is about counting different ways she loves
- Sonnet 43 is a Romantic poem
- William Blake is a Romantic poet
- William Blake was born and raised in London
- William Blake's poem 'a walk around London' is about London
- Rupert Brooke died of sepsis after not seeing conflict
- Rupert Brooke's poem 'The Soldier' was about World War 1
- Rupert Brooke had an idealistic view of war
- Rupert Brooke had a jingoistic view of England
- Lord Byron had many affairs
- Lord Byron's poem 'She Walks in Beauty' was about his cousin's wife Beatrix Wilmot
- Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan
- Imtiaz Dharker was raised in Glasgow
- Imtiaz Dharker currently lives in Mumbai
- Imtiaz Dharker's poem 'Living Space' is set in the Mumbai slums
- Emily Dickinson lived in almost complete isolation
- Emily Dickinson's poems are usually about nature, death and grief
- Cozy Apologia was written for Fred Viabhan
- Cozy Apologia is about Hurricane Floyd
- Carol Ann Duffy is a lesbian poet
- A Wife in London is about the Boer War
- A Wife in London has two parts: The Tragedy and The Irony
- Thomas Hardy's common themes are tragedy and destruction
- Seamus Heaney was born in the Irish countryside
- Heaney's writing was influenced by The Troubles
- Heaney was a Catholic
- Heaney's common themes are childhood, nature and politics
- Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes was controversial for assumed Nazi imagery
- Ted Hughes was an RAF pilot
- John Keats was a Romantic poet
- Keats lived in Winchester
- To Autumn is an Ode by Keats
- Philip Larkin's writing style was observational
- Larkin was born in Coventry
- Larkin was controversial for being sexist
- Wilfred Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum Est is about World War 1