“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;…

Blake’s Milton might have been called, at least as a second title, “The Lark and Wild Thyme,” since these are the objects…