Criticism on Poetry & Poets

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

By Elaine Feinstein

The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's fame?

By Elizabeth Lowry

In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

By William Palmer

Christmas Blessings

By Helen Steiner Rice

Have You Read George's Podcast?

By George the Poet

The Wit In The Dungeon: The Life of Leigh Hunt

By Anthony Holden

Praise Song For The Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration

By Elizabeth Alexander

Praise Song For The Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration

By Elizabeth Alexander

My Father's Places

By Aeronwy Thomas

Later Auden

By EDWARD MENDELSON

The Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography

By Louis MacNeice

Poetry Please!: More Poetry Please: 9 (EVERYMAN POETRY)

By BBC Radio 4

Selected Poetry

By John Donne, John Carey (Merton Professor of English Literature, Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Polly Atkin

John Donne - The Major Works

By John Donne, John Carey (Merton Professor of English Literature, Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)

The Whitsun Weddings and Selected Poems: York Notes Advanced - everything you need to study and prepare for the 2025 and 2026 exams

By Philip Larkin

Student Guide to Philip Larkin

By Warren Hope

The Philip Larkin I Knew

By Maeve Brennan

Dared and Done: Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

By Julia Markus

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: An outstanding collection of his best-loved poems

By Lord Alfred Tennyson

Long Road to Nowhere

By Amryl Johnson

Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage

By Raymond P. Scheindlin (Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary)

BYRON SHELLEY & THEIR CIRCLE

The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy

By Park Honan (Emeritus Professor, School of English, University of Leeds)

Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

By Nigel Jones

Wordsworth: A Life

By Juliet Barker

Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg

By Carolyn Cassady

Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography

By Sammons, Jeffrey L.

The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)

By Larkin, Philip, Motion, Andrew