Criticism on Poetry & Poets

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

By Graves, Robert

The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

By Stan Smith (Nottingham Trent University)

Greek Lyric Poetry: Includes Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Simonides and many more

By the late M. L. West (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford)

The Fat Black Woman's Poems: From the winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021

By Grace Nichols

Rilke: Selected Poems

Selected Poems

By Roger McGough

Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings and The Less Deceived: 3 (Macmillan Master Guides)

By Swarbrick, Andrew

T. S. Eliot - The Waste Land (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)

By Selby, Nick

Kazuo Ishiguro (Writers & Their Work S.)

By Wong, Cynthia F.

The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

By Wolosky, Shira

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

By Tytell, John

A Time To Love

By Steiner Rice, Helen

Dancing Sermons

By Mwamba, Trevor

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