By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
Discoveries can take many forms: an explorer discovering a new land, an astronomer discovering a whole new planet or galaxy, or a poet discovering the truth about love, nature, or even, for that matter, truth itself.
The following ten poems are our pick of the best ‘discovery’ poems: poems which are about people discovering things, or something about the world in some way. They range from metaphysical poems about settlers arriving on a new island to Romantic poems about discovering the joys of reading classical poetry in translation. We hope you enjoy them.