George Herbert

Though LAC was at enmity with her first husband's brother Edward Sackville (because her husband left all his assets to her while his brother received little but the title), she enjoyed a friendship with his...

MC was said to have loved poetry from her childhood. She admired George Herbert , and Horace in English translation, because of their freedom from heroic or military sentiment.

This book's title has been called the first of many to reflect EB 's concern with places. Place, however, is not described but interrogated, in abstract and self-enquiring poems, like Paris, 7 a.m. This...

Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...