How to explain the presence of Baudelaire as a defining presence for modernist poetry in English? He is felt, directly…

The first time we encounter the parenthetical “(Men sell not such in any town),” we might want to hear the…

In this series of posts, I proposed to myself to read the best short narrative poems from the nineteenth century.…

“He was a poet of misconceptions (the title of one of his poems), of failures, of abortive lives and loves,…

Keats’ “The Eve of St Agnes” places an unusual strain upon Keats’ distinct genius, while also offering it an opportunity…

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” though it would seem to belie, superbly confirms Coleridge’s critical principle: “nothing can permanently…

When it is reduced to a formula, Blake’s mythology in the masterpiece Jerusalem conveys one of the most plausible and…

The contrast between Hopkins and Shelley is so perfect in so many respects—atheist and Jesuit; a seeming see-saw of reputations;…