By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Dover Beach’ is one of the best-known and best-loved of Victorian poems, and the most widely anthologised poem by a Victorian figure whose poetic output was considerably slimmer than that of many of his contemporaries, such as Alfred, Lord Tennyson or Robert Browning.
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10 Classic Sonnets Everyone Should Read
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The sonnet form has been used by many poets in many languages since it was invented in the Middle Ages. It really arrived in English literature during the reign of Henry VIII in the sixteenth century, when poets such as Sir Thomas Wyatt and […]
A Short Analysis of Hopkins’s ‘God’s Grandeur’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) In our pick of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s best poems, we included ‘God’s Grandeur’, a sonnet celebrating ‘the grandeur of God’. Hopkins was one of the greatest religious poets of the entire nineteenth century, and this poem shows how he attained that reputation. Below is […]
D. R. Geraint Jones, ‘Let Me Not See Old Age’
A moving poem by a largely forgotten WWII poet In the latest post for our occasional series on neglected poems (see Anna Seward’s brilliant poem ‘An Old Cat’s Dying Soliloquy’ for a previous title in the series), we thought we’d share with you this little-known poem written by a young […]
10 Very Short Victorian Poems Everyone Should Read
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Victorians often liked their poems much the way they liked their novels: the bigger the better. And yet, just as there are some great Victorian short stories (they helped to pioneer the ghost story and the detective story, for instance), so there are […]