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

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

The Homeric Hymns are a crucial work in the Western literary canon, and Peter McDonald's new vers...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...