The Great Poets

The Independent has created a 15-day series on 'The Great Poets'.

The Independent, working with Michael Schmidt, Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow, presents the world and work of 14 of the best-loved poets in the English language, focusing on one poet in each booklet.

Then on Saturday 22 March The Independent are giving away a compilation CD of poetry featuring readings from all the main poets covered in the series.

The series starts on Saturday 8 March and continues every day until Saturday 22 March.

Saturday 8 March Geoffrey Chaucer

Sunday 9 March William Shakespeare

Monday 10 March John Donne

Tuesday 11 March John Milton

Wednesday 12 March Alexander Pope

Thursday 13 March William Blake

Friday 14 March Robert Burns

Saturday 15 March William Wordsworth

Sunday 16 March John Keats

Monday 17 March Robert Browning

Tuesday 18 March Walt Whitman

Wednesday 19 March Emily Dickinson

Thursday 20 March Gerard Manley Hopkins

Friday 21 March Thomas Hardy

Saturday 22 March Poetry CD

Only in The Independent and The Independent on Sunday

If you have missed part of the 'The Great Poets' series please visit www.read4charity.co.uk/poets

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