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The Lake - Judith Beveridge

…with the slow cisterns of crickets, her head with the quiet amplitude of – Keats perhaps, or a breeze consigning ripples to the bank; the sun, an emblazoned lifebuoy, still…

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Prelude to a New Fin-de-Siècle - David Gascoyne

…with Keats and Shelley such things as That poets can ‘legislate’ and prophesy; Or like Stravinsky when he wrote ‘The Rite’ Become transmitting vessels for new sounds From an inspiring,…

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Stanley Kunitz

B. 1905 D. 2006

2 poems available

…of his career, commenting in a late interview that “as a young poet I looked for what Keats called ‘a fine excess’, but as an old poet I look for…

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John Moat

B. 1936 D. 2014

5 poems available

…moving in the shadowy world of speculative thought and ancient myths and legends. Moat’s playful nods to Donne and Keats reveal his debt to the Metaphysical and Romantic poets, and…

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5 poems available

…many to summarise here. Significant highlights include an Eric Gregory Award in 1972, the 1974 Keats Memorial Prize, the 1992 H. H. Wingate–Jewish Quarterly Prize for Poetry, the 2017 Xu…

Guided Tour

…call up the voices of earlier poets. I want us to stop and listen to the inspired love in Keats’ voice as he reads Bright Star and then to move…

Guided Tour

…journals and poetry collections including Here to Eternity (2001) and has published prose fiction; his biographies include Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life (1993), Keats (1997) and Wainewright the Poisoner (2000)….

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4 poems available

…Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man: It cannot be matured by law & precept, but by sensation & watchfulness in itself…’ – John Keats

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Amy Lowell

B. 1874 D. 1925

1 poem available

…poets she admired and wrote literary criticism, including a lengthy biography of John Keats. Lowell received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1925 for her collection of poems What’s O’Clock….

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9 poems available

…from the book won the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. Pascale’s rich and measured readings of the selection from “Mama Amazonica” draws out the strength, vulnerability and inspiration provided by the Amazonian…

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5 poems available

…Bacchus and his pards But on the viewless wings of poesy…” – Keats “I am two fools, I know, For loving and for saying so In whining poetry” – Donne…

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4 poems available

Keats in ‘By the Forge’ confirms the range and versatility of Francis’s imaginative terrain, while proving that the overlapping borders of texts, unclassifiable as fact, folk-tale, or deliberate invention, especially…

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6 poems available

…a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 2002 she was winner of the Keats Shelley Prize for Poetry, and nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Draycott’s collaborative works…

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Wilfred Owen

B. 1893 D. 1918

4 poems available

The poems that made Wilfred Owen famous were mostly published after his death in action a week before the end of the First World War. Powerfully influenced by Keats and…

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John Milton

B. 1608 D. 1674

3 poems available

…reputation mostly rested on his prose work. However, by the late eighteenth century he was recognised as a master, giving inspiration to, among many other poets, Blake, Wordsworth and Keats….

Special Collection

…the British and Irish countryside’s. From Housman’s description of the trees of Wenlock Edge to Keats’ depiction of Autumn. We hope you’ll listen and enjoy these poems and use them…

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This is the server . . . - Felix Dennis

…local neighbourhood terrorist, Bidding for first editions of Keats, Cribbing your home work, booking your seats, Checking if Daddy has taken his medicine, Clinching the date of birth for Edison,…

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