Selected by Dr Oliver Tearle Over the last five years or so, we’ve been compiling lists of ‘best poems’ by various poets, and on numerous topics. In this post, we gather together 33 of the very best short poems in the English language. All of the following poems qualify as […]
A very short Victorian poem We didn’t include this lovely quatrain from William Allingham, beginning ‘Everything passes and vanishes’, in our compilation of short Victorian poems; though we could easily have done so. William Allingham (1824-89) was an Irish poet whose most enduringly popular poem is ‘The Faeries’; his Diary, […]
Selected by Dr Oliver Tearle Modernist poetry is often associated with long poems such as T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, but modernism was also when poetry went small, thanks in no small part to Imagism, spearheaded by Pound himself. Here are 10 works of modernist poetry […]
Looking for some great short medieval poems which are easy to read? Look no further than this, our latest post… Medieval poetry can be a daunting field to dip into (to mix our metaphors terribly). Although Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales and Dante’s Divine Comedy are masterpieces and essential reading, perhaps the best […]