The ten poets featured in this issue are Mary Robinson, Letitia Landon, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats and Lord Byron. Their poetry is seen as a reaction to ‘Age of Enlightenment’ with its philosophy of order and rationalism by stressing the importance of expressing real, personal feelings.
This coin cover encapsulates a British Antarctic Territory £2 coin featuring the Petrel, an allusion to Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ – his longest major poem – and bears a Keswick handstamp.
