John Keats

In this collection, Rich shows her engagement with the predominantly male Anglo-American poetic tradition, which includes Donne , Keats , Frost , Stevens , Thomas , and with the ideal, espoused by Auden, of detachment...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

One poem, Wish in Spring, opposes Keats 's notion that writing poetry comes naturally: STW points out that it is a difficult activity which takes great care.

Titled simply September 2014 and headed with a Gaelic greeting that translates as I love you, this short poem highlights the shared prickliness of the two national symbols and the pilgrimage of an English...

Like much of AW 's later poetry, this inaugural volume shows the influence of Alfred Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , as well as earlier poets such as John Keats . Many poems here, including...

DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...

Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978. Many handle the world's headline griefs; many record the tiny deaths of animals. The opening poem, Memorials of the...

Set in the fictional German Duchy of Luna and beginning in about 1701, this story is centred on the orphaned Prince Alberic and his fascination with two apparitions which are clearly linked: a sympathetic serpent...

The title (shamelessly re-used by verse anthologists working after EF ) is a quotation from Keats 's Ode to a Nightingale, where the magic windows open on the foam / Of perilous seas, in...

BP published the last novel of her lifetime, The Sweet Dove Died.

HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934. Her...

AM wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie 's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning (1903),...

Again the title names an imaginary place: it is the phrase which Keats applies to the territory of poetry in Upon First Looking into Chapman's Homer. It also suggests the heroine's work as an...

MAW planned her next novel as a much weightier study of the intellectual impact of historical thought on conventional faith; it was deeply influenced by the intellectual milieu of Oxford and the histories of her...

She chose epigraphs to chapter one from Keats and James Shirley , to chapters three and fourteen from Mary Howitt , and elsewhere from Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Percy Bysshe Shelley , and writers in French, German, and Italian.