Innocence is a theme that looms large in English poetry, especially since the age of Romanticism. However, poems about innocence can be found before the 1790s and the arrival of Romanticism into English poetry, so below we’ve ranged far and wide in English verse to collect some of the greatest […]
The 1920s was the Jazz Age in America, and the age of modernism in Britain. It was the era of flappers, cocktail parties, and experimenting with the novel; but for others, who couldn’t afford the luxury of gin fizzes in luxury mansions or a room of their own to move […]
Poems are often thought of, first and foremost, as depictions of visual scenes: the view of a landscape, the portrait of a person, the sight of something arresting and unusual. But sound, too, plays an important part in the music and rhythm of poetry, and many poets have written poems […]