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Pictures of 20 well-known poets appear in alphabetical sequence of their surnames.

A snippet from an often-quoted poem from each of these poets is also shown but sadly the snippets have got muddled up and appear against the wrong poet.  For each poet depicted identify a) their name and b) which of the snippets of poetry shown against the other poets was actually penned by them (use the letters tagged to each snippet to indicate your choice).

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1.

J.

“This is the night mail crossing the Border, 

Bringing the cheque and the postal order, 

Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, 

The shop at the corner, the girl next door.”

2.

M.

“Think of what our Nation stands for,

Books from Boots' and country lanes,

Free speech, free passes, class distinction,

Democracy and proper drains.”

W H Auden

J

Night Mail (1936)

John Betjeman

M

In Westminster Abbey (1940)

3.

E.

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 

In the forests of the night; 

What immortal hand or eye, 

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

4.

N.

“O, to be in England Now that April's there,

And whoever wakes in England

Sees, some morning, unaware.”

William Blake

E

The Tyger (1794)

Robert Browning

N

Home-Thoughts from Abroad (1845)

5.

R.

“April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.”

6.

Q.

“An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,

In blast-beruffled plume,

Had chosen thus to fling his soul

Upon the growing gloom.”

T S Eliot

R

The Waste Land (1922)

Thomas Hardy

Q

The Darkling Thrush (1922)

7.

A.

“The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,

The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,

And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.”

8.

F.

“It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:

Now I hold Creation in my foot.”

A E Housman

A

A Shropshire Lad (1896)

Ted Hughes

F

Hawk Roosting (1960)

9.

T.

“‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

10.

C.

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.”

John Keats

T

Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)

Rudyard Kipling

C

The Ballad of East and West (1889)

11.

L.

“And that will be England gone,

The shadows, the meadows, the lanes,

The guildhalls, the carved choirs.”

12.

O.

“The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks

Which practically conceal its sex.

I think it clever of the turtle
In such a fix to be so fertile.”

Phillip Larkin

L

Going, Going (1974)

Ogden Nash

O

Autres Betes, Autres Moeurs (1931)

13.

B.

“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle,

Can patter out their hasty orisons.”

14.

H.

“The woman is perfected.   

Her dead
Body wears the smile of accomplishment,   

The illusion of a Greek necessity.”

Wilfrid Owen

B

Anthem for Doomed Youth (1917)

Sylvia Plath

H

Edge (1963)

15.

K.

“If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,

I’d live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.”

16.

G.

“We look before and after,

And pine for what is not;

Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught;

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

Siegfried Sassoon

K

Base Details (1918)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

G

To a Skylark (1819)

17.

P.

“Theirs not to make reply,

Theirs not to reason why,

Theirs but to do and die:

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.”

18.

D.

“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,

And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,

I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson

P

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)

Walt Whitman

D

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1881)

19.

I.

“Earth has not anything to show more fair:

Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

A sight so touching in its majesty:

This City now doth, like a garment, wear.”

20.

S.

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

William Wordsworth

I

Upon Westminster Bridge (1802)

W B Yeats

S

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (1899)