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    'The Windhover' was written by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) in 1877, but, like many of Hopkins's poems, was not published until 1918, long after his death. It's one of his most widely anthologised poems and some analysis of it may help readers to appreciate it as a curious and interesting example of the sonnet form. So, what follows ...
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    Written in 1877 but only first published decades later, 'The Windhover' is both a nature poem (the windhover is another name for the kestrel) ... This 1923 poem by the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) is a love poem, although not a conventional one. The form of the poem is also a curious choice given Millay's subject-matter.
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    By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Whittling down a great poet's oeuvre to 10 essential must-read poems is always going to be difficult, and the list of the best Hopkins poems which follows is, we confess, somewhat personal. But if you're looking for an introduction to the spellbinding poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) or…
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    After Hopkins's annus mirabilis in 1877, when he was living in North Wales and wrote a spate of some of his finest and best-known poems including 'The Windhover', Hopkins moved to Ireland where, in the mid-1880s while plunged into depression, he penned the 'Terrible Sonnets', which reflected the despair and comfortlessness he felt at ...
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    He wrote it in 1877, during a golden era of creativity for the poet, while he was living in Wales. The comparison between the kestrel or 'windhover' and Christ arises out of Hopkins's deeply felt Christianity (he was a Jesuit), and the poet's breathless exhilaration at sighting the bird is brilliantly captured by Hopkins's distinctive ...
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    By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) A. E. Housman (1859-1936) didn't write a great deal of poetry, but the poems he left behind are loved by millions around the world. But what are Housman's best poems? Drawing up a 'top ten' has proved difficult. We've included some of his most famous poems, but have also…
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    By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The seventeenth century gave us the first published poems from America, the elaborate conceits and scientific flavour of metaphysical poetry, some classic English epic poems, and the birth of the new, orderly, 'neoclassical' poetry that would continue into the following century. Below, we select ten of the most emblematic…
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    Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) was not a prolific poet, but her body of work is a substantial one and marks her out as one of the great poets of the twentieth century. However, the newcomer may find it difficult to find a good starting-point. With Sylvia Plath we might start with 'Daddy' or 'Lady Lazarus'; Marianne…
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    Memorably used by The Beatles as the lyrics for their song of the same name on the Abbey Road LP, 'Golden Slumbers' is a beautiful lullaby from Thomas Dekker's 1603 play Patient Grissel, written with Henry Chettle and William Haughton.. This is one of the most soothing and beautiful poems of the Renaissance - and perhaps the best-known Renaissance lullaby, or 'cradle song', out there.
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    Samuel Johnson (1709-84) embodies much of the eighteenth century with its determination to define, categorise, and classify: he is best-remembered for his monumental 1755 Dictionary of the English Language.But he was also a poet: much of Johnson's poetry is written in the heroic couplets (iambic pentameter rhyming couplets) used in Pope's poem above.

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