Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty...

Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of...

Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts;...

Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet...

Wilde, glamorous and notorius, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an...

With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin.
Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of...

Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January...