By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
Poets are often concerned with beauty and the beautiful. But what are the best poems about beauty?
In this post, we’ve suggested ten of the finest poems about the beautiful, ranging from the Elizabethan era to the contemporary, and taking in, among other things, the relationship between Truth and Beauty, the link between beauty and desire, and the various kinds of beauty – from intellectual beauty to the beauty found in the natural world. We hope you enjoy these beautiful poems.