I am doing a poetry project and need help with some authors.?

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I need some poets that led interesting lives. If you could give some of their poetry that helped us get a sense of the poet's life and that you enjoyed a lot that would be good too.
 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Read Xanidu's fortress- Coleridge complained of chronic pain and his doctor prescribed what was thought to be effective- laudnum which had an opium base- Coleridge battled with addiction and said Xanidu was a pale imitation of the vision he had after an opiate based reverie
 
Rudyard Kipling
"The Charge Of The Light Brigade"
"On The Road To Mandalay"

Robert Frost
"The Death Of The Hired Man"
"The Mending Wall"

Oscar Wilde
"The Ballad Of Reading Gaol"

William Ernest Henley
"Invictus"
 
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