Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" is an example of poetic ekphrasis, and also a keen psychological study of a strange and sinister man.

Feb 26, 2011 – Mark Wallace

A lighthearted look at Robert Burns' "Scotch Drink," "Address to a Haggis," and the revelrous side of 18th Century Scottish identity.

Feb 26, 2011 – Robin Marx

The "Ubi Sunt," a motif of lamentation and elegy common in Medieval poetry, is examined by comparing its occurrences in Beowulf and The Wanderer.

Feb 20, 2011 – Robin Marx

The speaker in Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 41" expresses her gratitude for all those who have loved her-including, of course, a special debt to her belovèd.

Feb 18, 2011 – Linda Sue Grimes

Romantic poet, Percy Bysse Shelley had a short, but intense life. Shelley was a rebel and an eccentric, whose outrageous behaviour shocked society.

Feb 18, 2011 – Janet Cameron

A revaluation and analysis of the Shelley's much admired dramatic lyric 'The Indian Serenade,' in which we find an encounter with somnambulism...

Feb 15, 2011 – Barry Gibbons

William Blake pays tribute to "Paradise Lost" with a highly unconventional account of Satan's fall from grace in the first part of his epic poem "Milton."

Jan 30, 2011 – Paul Brown

The brief preface found in two copies of William Blake's poem "Milton" is a prelude both to the poem itself and his later condemnations of classical ideals.

Jan 30, 2011 – Paul Brown

One of T.S. Eliot's most straightforward poems, "Portrait of a Lady" presents a satire of emotional emptiness and modern ennui.

Jan 29, 2011 – Paul Brown

One of T.S. Eliot's bleakest poems, "The Hollow Men" moves beyond Eliot's previous considerations of alienation towards larger ideas about life and death.

Jan 29, 2011 – Paul Brown

T.S. Eliot's most famous poem is one of the most accessible of his early works, a monologue on emotional alienation, aging, and the fear of failure.

Jan 29, 2011 – Paul Brown

Two short prose works on a single plate, William Blake's "On Homer's Poetry" and "On Virgil" condemn the ideals of classical poetry.

Jan 29, 2011 – Paul Brown

The last of T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" recapitulates the work's major themes with a focus on redemption and the cyclical nature of life.

Jan 29, 2011 – Paul Brown

The third of T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" is more explicitly religious than its predecessors, viewing man's relationship to time in terms of faith.

Jan 29, 2011 – Paul Brown

Composed years after the first of T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets", "East Coker" starts with similar themes but focuses more on natural cycles and creativity.

Jan 28, 2011 – Paul Brown

The first of T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" concerns the nature of time and humankind's relationship to the past and the future.

Jan 28, 2011 – Paul Brown

The speaker muses on love as a universal phenomenon and stresses her appreciation for the patient love of her belovèd.

Jan 28, 2011 – Linda Sue Grimes

The 1822 drama "The Ghost of Abel" is William Blake's response to Lord Byron's "Cain" and a recasting of Biblical themes on his own terms.

Jan 27, 2011 – Paul Brown

The 1820 revision of "For Children: The Gates of Paradise" adds three poems that link the work to William Blake's radical rejection of organized religion.

Jan 27, 2011 – Paul Brown

William Blake focuses on the rebellious son of Urizen in "The Book of Ahania", giving far less attention to Ahania herself.

Jan 27, 2011 – Paul Brown