John Keats

The book was highly derivative. Though she had just discovered the poems of Pablo Neruda , CAD describes the contents of the volume as a mixture of Keats and Sylvia Plath and Dylan Thomas and...

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

MD formed the desire to be a poet while she was a child: I wouldn't marry or have children but would follow in the penprints of my hero Keats . While she was at...

She writes often here about the landscape and plants at Steepletop, using them as a metaphor for life and joy and the past. The final piece included in her Selected Poems, 2003, a...

The volume was well reviewed, and poems were reprinted in two magazines. Literary commentators like Thomas Park , Joseph Cooper Walker , and Joseph Martin , assured Robert Anderson of their admiration.

For SN , writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet....

These poems deal in passing time and final partings, with the sudden recognition of changes accumulated over years. The magic cloak of invisibility longed for by children comes in the end unsought for and the...

In one speech given in 1903, True Brotherhood, SN advocates the spirit of brotherhood and equality as an antidote to provincialism, declaring I am a real democrat, because to me there is no difference...

One reviewer noted ASB 's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. In Crocodile Tears a woman walks away...

HD 's many other writings include reviews (of both poetry and fiction), introductions (to the poems of Emily Brontë , the stories of D. H. Lawrence and F. Scott Fitzgerald , and a study of...

As usual with Rich, the six sections of this book fuse the poetic with the political (as reflected in her allusions to Gerard Manley Hopkins , Walter Benjamin , Homer , Keats ). The first...

Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the...

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

When Thomas Moore read Psyche he expressed his pleasure to MT in a short lyric which calls her by the name of her protagonist, Psyche; at her death he eulogised her by the same...

As soon as it was brought to public attention (as the work of a woman who had died tragically young), Psyche attracted a rush of attention. The Quarterly Review accorded Tighe high praise as being...