An introduction to ‘God’s Grandeur’, the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, by Dr Oliver Tearle 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 […]
On a great poem by one of WWI’s overlooked war poets – analysed by Dr Oliver Tearle Ivor Gurney is a relatively little-known poet of the First World War. Born in Gloucester in 1890, he served in the War from 1915 until 1917; he would spend most of his final […]
One of Christina Rossetti’s most enduringly popular poems, analysed by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘Remember’, written by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) when she was still a teenager, is a classic Victorian poem about mourning and remembrance. It was written in 1849 but not published until 1862 when it appeared in Rossetti’s first […]