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Charles Lambs poems are unabashedly sentimental and perhaps for this reason he is still remembered as a poet and widely read today Mary Lamb with Charles Lamb produced many wellknown collections of poetry and prose for children Hartley Coleridge published poems in the London Magazine He excelled at composing sonnets and published a short collection Poems In his time John Clare was commonly known as the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet He wrote in Northamptonshire dialect introducing local words to the literary canon His early work expresses delight in nature and the cycle of the rural yearLeigh Hunts vivid descriptions and lyrical quality are noteworthy as is his keen delight in nature and he is a master of mood and atmosphere As a poet Walter Savage Landor was best known for his classic epigrams and idylls Most of Dorothy Wordsworths writing explores the natural world Hannah More can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson Reynolds and Garrick as a writer on moral and religious subjects and as a practical philanthropist Sir Walter Scotts first love and earliest success was as a poet Indeed it is no understatement to say that he was the bestread bestreviewed and bestpaid poet of the Romantic period Robert Southey was perhaps the most versatile as well as one of the most prolific He produced epics romances and metrical tales ballads plays monodramas odes eclogues sonnets and miscellaneous lyrics Mary Robinson became distinguished for her poetry and was reclassified as the English Sappho by the English public She wrote eight collections of poems