In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys the comic verse by one of the most ‘miserable’ poets in English literature ‘The Crocodile or, Public Decency’ is not one of the best-known poems of A. E. Housman (1859-1936), the classical scholar and poet who failed his […]
Selected by Dr Oliver Tearle The (possibly mythical) figure of King Arthur has inspired the imaginations of countless writers for the last thousand years. But which are the very best books about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table? Here, we’ve gathered ten of the very best books […]
‘Lullaby’ is a poem by the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden (1907-73). It was published in 1937, when Auden was still living in England (he would depart for the United States in early 1939). The poem is an example of a love poem, but there are a number of things […]