Criticism on Poetry & Poets

The Cinder Path

By Sir Andrew Motion

Donne's "Songs and Sonnets"

By Albert James Smith

To Each His Own

By Leonardo Sciascia

The Poet's Manual and Rhyming Dictionary (Stillman)

By Frances Stillman

Lord Byron - The Major Works

By George Gordon, Lord Byron, Jerome J. McGann (Professor of Humanities, Professor of Humanities, California Institute of Technology)

The Complete Poems

By William Blake, Alicia Ostriker

Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poets and Politics

By Isobel Armstrong

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

By Larkin, Philip, Motion, Andrew

Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography

By Sammons, Jeffrey L.

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

By Carolyn Cassady

Wordsworth: A Life

By Juliet Barker

Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

By Nigel Jones

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy

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

The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

BYRON SHELLEY & THEIR CIRCLE

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)

Long Road to Nowhere

By Amryl Johnson

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

By Lord Alfred Tennyson

Dared and Done: Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

By Julia Markus

The Philip Larkin I Knew

By Maeve Brennan

Student Guide to Philip Larkin

By Warren Hope

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

John Donne - The Major Works

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

Selected Poetry

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

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

By BBC Radio 4

The Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography

By Louis MacNeice

Later Auden

By EDWARD MENDELSON

My Father's Places

By Aeronwy Thomas

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

By Elizabeth Alexander