Channel Firing
War’s rehearsal rattles the dead as Hardy exposes modern militarism’s empty thunder.
The Darkling Thrush
A wintry century’s despair meets a thrush’s song of inexplicable hope.
Goblin Market
Rossetti’s narrative poem of temptation and sisterly sacrifice, where desire, commerce, and redemption collide in richly musical Victorian verse.
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” contrasts beauty and despair, exploring lost faith and the enduring need for love in a changing world.
W. B. Yeats
Discover W. B. Yeats, the Irish poet whose mystical vision and modernist craft reshaped twentieth-century poetry.
A. E. Housman
Explore the life and poetry of A. E. Housman — the classical scholar and lyric poet whose restraint and melancholy shaped modern English verse.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Discover the life and poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins — the Jesuit poet whose faith and innovation reshaped modern English verse.
Thomas Hardy
Explore the life and poetry of Thomas Hardy — the novelist-turned-poet whose tragic vision and lyrical realism shaped English literature.
Lord Byron
Discover the life and works of Lord Byron — the daring Romantic poet whose passion, rebellion, and genius shaped modern literature.
William Blake
Explore the visionary life and poetry of William Blake — the Romantic poet, artist, and prophet of imagination and spiritual freedom.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Discover the life and poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley — the visionary Romantic poet of rebellion, idealism, and lyrical beauty.
John Keats
Explore the life and poetry of John Keats — the Romantic poet of beauty, art, and mortality whose odes shaped English literature.