Thomas Hardy’s poem is touching – but also troubling when he rewrites the past.
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Author: Poetry Prof
Poetry Prof is the work of Doug Sillett, from Somerset in the southwest of the UK, a place who's greatest claim to poetry fame is as the site of inspiration for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Dover Beach
Armies of ignorance conquer all in Matthew Arnold’s dark and disturbing vision of the world.
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After
There’s never enough time says Philip Bourke Marston in this powerful poem about loss and bereavement.
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Amends
Adrienne Rich’s mysterious poem suggests we all have something to make up for – but what?
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Song to the Men of England
Percy Bysshe Shelley exhorts us to rise up in this powerful poetical polemic.
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Not Waving But Drowning
Stevie Smith asks if we couldn’t all do a little more to help from time to time.
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In Praise of Creation
Faith is stronger than doubt in this eulogy by Elizabeth Jennings.
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Ode on Melancholy
Go with John Keats on a quest to find Joy in the mystical realm of Lethe.
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