Essays

Plath – The Woman is Perfected

At the time of her death in 1963, aged thirty, Sylvia Plath had published just one collection of poetry, to muted response,…

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Plath – The Poems

‘Because I could not stop for Death –/He kindly stopped for me,’ wrote Emily Dickinson. Well, Plath stopped for him. And as…

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Auden – Truth Out of Time

‘One Sunday afternoon in March 1922, a school friend casually asked me if I wrote poetry. I, who had never written a…

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Kipling – The Poems

First to Kipling and the women, of whom, in his personal life, there were virtually none. He married his wife Carrie, Caroline…

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The American Poets

What riches American Poetry affords us Bishop, Berryman, Hart Crane, Dickinson, Eliot, Frost, Longfellow, Lowell, Millay, Moore, Plath, Pound, Poe, Wallace Stevens,…

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Auden – The Poems

‘When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a…

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Rossetti – The Poems

Sisterhood, whether Pre-Raphaelite or not, is a challenging state, one which is quite different from that of brotherhood. It is never more…

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Yeats – A Pity Beyond All Telling

‘If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world we can better discover that destiny from the words…

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Eliot – The Poems

‘It is an art of the nerves, this art of Laforgue, and it is what all art would tend towards if we…

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Words That Burn

How do you possess a poem? Well, ‘same as for love’. Pay attention to it. Listen to it. It will speak to you…

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