Amy Clampitt’s poetry, like the poetry of earlier twentieth-century poets such as the modernist H. D., is nature poetry, often with an oceanic setting. ‘The Cormorant in Its Element’ is a great way in if you haven’t read Clampitt’s work before: it’s a sonnet, albeit a technically innovative and interesting […]
‘Remembrance’ is one of Emily Brontë’s best-known poems. F. R. Leavis, not a critic who was ever easy to please, described it as ‘the finest poem in the nineteenth-century part of The Oxford Book of English Verse’, although he also believed it lacked the felt experience found, for instance, in […]
‘The General’ is one of the most famous poems written by Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). After Wilfred Owen, Sassoon was probably the most celebrated – and perhaps the most gifted – English poet to write about his experiences in the First World War. But where Owen writes about ‘the pity of […]