english poetry

Portrait of William Shakespeare by John Taylor, known as the Chandos Portrait, showing the poet-playwright with an earring and a contemplative expression.

William Shakespeare

Discover the life and legacy of William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon whose plays and sonnets shaped English literature and continue to inspire readers…

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.