2017-08-21 14:00
A summary of Shakespeare’s 52nd sonnet Sonnet 52 is another poem about absence, and about Shakespeare having to be apart from the Fair Youth. The rather dense and knotty conceit, which… Read More
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2017-08-18 14:00
In this week’s Dispatches from the Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle looks at the work of the master of the comic dialogue, Lucian of Samosata It all started with a Syrian writer about… Read More
2017-08-17 14:00
A commentary on Donne’s great poem of farewell One of the great ‘goodbye’ poems in the English language, ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’ is, in a sense, no… Read More
2017-08-16 14:00
The greatest poems about vacations Holidays can be a time for the family to spend time together, a time to get away from it all. Poets aren’t naturally drawn to happy times as a fit su… Read More
2017-08-15 14:00
A reading of a short Eliot poem ‘Cousin Nancy’ appeared in T. S. Eliot’s first volume of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, in 1917. It is one of a series of poems inc… Read More
2017-08-14 14:00
A summary of Shakespeare’s 51st sonnet ‘Thus can my love excuse the slow offence / Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed’: Sonnet 51 is very much a continuation or Shake… Read More
2017-08-11 14:00
In this week’s Dispatches from the Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle returns to the Golden Age of detective fiction with this crime classic Before Colin Dexter breathed new life into th… Read More
2017-08-10 14:00
A summary of a classic Dickinson poem ‘Pain — has an Element of Blank – ’ is a short poem by Emily Dickinson which, like ‘It was not Death, for I stood up&rsquo&hell…Read More
2017-08-09 14:00
The finest wine poems ‘Wine is bottled poetry.’ So said the Victorian poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson; and, indeed, over the centuries numerous poets have waxed lyrical… Read More
2017-08-08 14:00
A summary of a curious Eliot poem One of the most popular of the quatrain poems published in T. S. Eliot’s second volume of poetry, ‘Whispers of Immortality’ (1920) is actu… Read More
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