By Dr Oliver Tearle ‘Snowdrop’ is a short poem by Ted Hughes (1930-98), perhaps the greatest nature poet writing in English during the entire twentieth century. Only Edward Thomas can match Hughes for the attention to detail and the powerful yet unsentimental treatment of the natural world (and notably, Hughes […]
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10 of the Best Nature Poems Everyone Should Read
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Nature is one of the great themes of poetry, and also provides poets with a storehouse of vivid and useful images. But what are the finest nature poems in the English language? Whether it’s the Romantics like Wordsworth and Keats, the Victorians with their […]