By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
Previously, we offered some of the finest poems for June, so now we move forward into that even hotter summer month of July, a month which brings ‘cooling showers, / Apricots and gillyflowers’ according to the poet Sara Coleridge. Below are some of the best and most famous poems about July, including a few ‘wild cards’ which we’d especially recommend.