P.J. Kavanagh's 1982 edition of the Collected Poems established Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) as one of...

C.H. Sisson was born in Bristol in 1914. To celebrate his centenary, this Reader includes a gener...

First published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of cr...

Ovid (c. 43 BC - AD 17), a daring, original and passionate poet, has been an enduring influence o...

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of English poetry's truly distinctive stylists, a ...

Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has long been regarded as the lost modernist. Her extraordinary long po...

The great unshackling of women's voices in poetry has one of its beginnings right here. These sad...

Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her Goblin Market and Oth...

F.T. Prince's Collected Poems 1935-1992 incorporates all the work that he wished to preserve, fro...

'The true haunts of the poetic powers,' Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) wrote to his friend Matthe...

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) began writing poetry as a devotee of Blake, Shelley, the pre-Raphaelites, ...