poets, english

Examines early British poetry from the seventh to the nineteenth century, including short biographies of poets like William Shakespeare and John Donne; along with examples of poems, poetic techniques, and explication.

A masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing how two turbulent lives were always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spirit of that extraordinary father whom Ada never knew: Lord Byron.

In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, a combat officer and poet, writes a letter publicly disavowing the war. He is found to be "mentally unsound" and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where there is a psychiatrist renowned for curing such cases.

Uses film excerpts, dramatic readings, and location footage to look at what is known about the life and career of sixteenth-century playwright William Shakespeare, from his youth in Stratford-on-Avon, to his death at age fifty-two.

Provides a critical analysis of the work of the English romantic poet and an examination of his life.

Chronicles the life of twentieth-century writer, literary critic, and social commentator Stephen Spender, discussing Spender's literary, political, and artistic interests, childhood, schooling, contributions to the literary world, personal relationships, and more.

Chronicles the last thirty years of Coleridge's life, focusing on his failing marriage, his opium addiction, his relationship with Wordsworth, and his later writings.

Contains all the known surviving poems written by Auden between March 1922 when he decided to become a poet at the age of fifteen, and October 1928 when he left school.