Criticism on Poetry & Poets

A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

By Mary Oliver

The Romantic Poets: Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth

By Geoffrey Moore, Peter Porter

Well Wrought Urn

By Cleanth Brooks

W.B.Yeats: A Life

By Stephen Coote

How to Study a Poet

By John Peck

William Wordsworth's The Prelude: A Casebook

By Stephen Gill (University Professor of English Literature, University Professor of English Literature, Oxford University)

Edgar Allan Poe

By Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Gray

Sea-Fever: Selected Poems of John Masefield

By Philip W. Errington

The Parlement of Foulys

By Geoffrey Chaucer, D. Brewer

Songs of the Immortals: Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry

By Yuanzhong Xu

The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud

By Clive James

The Criticism of Poetry

By S. H Burton

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

By Jenny Uglow

Thomas Hardy - Poems of 1912-13: The Emma Poems

By John Greening

Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy: York Notes Advanced - everything you need to study and prepare for the 2025 and 2026 exams

By Thomas Hardy

W.H. Auden

By Tony Sharpe

Selected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy: York Notes Advanced

By Duffy, Carol

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell

By J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien

John Keats

By John Whale

A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction

By Mark S Bauer

John Masefield

By Muriel Spark

Siberie M'etait Conteee: A Tous Les Pecheurs De Fleuve Amour

By Manu Chao, Wozniak

The Odyssey

By Homer, Adam Roberts (Royal Holloway College, University of London), Dr Keith Carabine (University of Kent at Canterbury)

Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

By Merlin Holland

Betjeman

By A.N. Wilson

John Masefield

By Constance Babington Smith

Greek Metre

By The late M. L. West

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Frances Wilson

Keats: The Complete Poems

By M. Allott

Best Remembered Poems

By Martin Gardner