By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
The 1960s was a heady time for many, thanks to the Summer of Love and ‘flower power’; it was an age of revolutionary politics and also extraordinary optimism. It was also the age of the Civil Rights movement in the United States, and this, too, is reflected in the selection of important 1960s poems we introduce below. We hope you enjoy these classic 1960s poems.