english poets

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.

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.

Presents the life and works of the English visionary poet William Blake, discussing his childhood, apprenticeship, studies, and looks at some of the masterpieces he created as an adult, and his claims of having supernatural visions.

Describes the World War I poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and others who used poetry to explain their experiences in the war.