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E.E. Cummings |
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) is a poet beloved for his unpretentious, irreverent, and rule-breaking… |
Alison Rosenblitt |
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How Short Can a Short Poem Be? |
One of the most celebrated Christian epigrams is this:
Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I… |
Julian Thompson |
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This Old Man, That Old Man: Wordsworth Revises Wordsworth |
1) This Old Man (1798)
When Wordsworth published this poem in the ground-breaking first volume of… |
Julian Thompson |
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This is a place one can go mad in – Ivor Gurney, Asylum Poet |
Ivor Gurney was a First World War poet and a composer of beautiful songs, and orchestral and… |
Kate Kennedy |
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Wilfred Owen - biography |
'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.'
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (… |
Stuart Lee, Stephanie Fishwick |
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The Art of Mourning in First World War Poetry |
Wilfred Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
Wilfred Owen's presentation of mourning is far more… |
Charlotte Barrett |
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‘‘Beauty […] lay not within the thing but in what the thing symbolised’’: Female Clothing and the Senses in the Works of Thomas Hardy |
By Charlotte Barrett
This essay examines how female clothing plays a vital part in Hardy's… |
Charlotte Barrett |
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Derek Walcott |
By Jorge Mejía Peralta (Flickr: IMG_1050poesia) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Derek Walcott… |
Dominic Davies |
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The Celebration of Nature in Victorian Poetry |
Despite the publication of Darwin's radical text On the Origin of Species (1859),which promoted a… |
Charlotte Barrett |
