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Unit 4 Reading Text 1 Poetry Goes Underground;Text 1: Poetry goes underground;Cultural Notes 1. British Poets William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798) in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.;Cultural Notes 1. British Poets William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver; one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism. The most famous of Blake’s lyrical poems is Auguries of Innocence, with its memorable opening stanza.;Cultural Notes 1. British Poets Kathleen Jamie (1962- ), lives in Fife, Scotland and teaches creative writing at the University of St. Andrews. Her collection of poetry include Jizzen, The Queen of Sheba, and The Autonomous Region: Poems and Photographs from Tibet (photographs by Sean Mayne Smith). Her poetry awards include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award.;Cultural Notes 1. British Poets Michael Bullock (1918- ), Born in London. From 1952-1968, he worked as a freelance writer and translator. In 1968, he came to Canada as a Commonwealth Fellow. In 1969 he was the McGuffey Visiting Professor of English at Ohio University. In 1970 he joined the Creative Writing Department at the University of British Columbia, retiring as professor emeritus in 1983. he now devotes his time exclusively to writing, including the occasional translation.;Cultural Notes Chinese poets Li Bai, also known as “Poet Immortal”, best known for the extravagant imagination and striking Taoist imagery in his poetry. ;Cultural Notes Chinese poets Du Fu, one undisputed genius of Chinese poetry and a master and innovator of all the verse forms of his time, also known as “Poet Sage”. ;Cultural Notes Chinese poets Bai Juyi, one of the famous Tang poets, and a productive poet. ;Cultural Notes 3. China in London 2006 2006伦敦中国年