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I wrote Yeats and Modern Poetry because I think that W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) did more than any other poet to create something we recognise as ‘modern poetry’. Without Yeats, there might not be a ‘poetry month’ today. For me, T.S. Eliot is a much more academic poet than Yeats – which explains why Eliot is […]
Read MoreCelebrate National Poetry Month with Cambridge University Press! In this blog post editor and poet Gerry Dawe discusses his forthcoming book The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets.
Read MoreIt seems only fitting at the start of National Poetry Month to think about what the art form that it celebrates might offer us at this moment in 2017. Two key figures in the last 75 years of American poetry – they feature prominently but also somewhat controversially (more on that below) in The Cambridge […]
Read MoreCelebrate National Poetry Month with Cambridge University Press! In this blog post editor Walter Kalaidjian discusses The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry.
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Keats' sonnet ''Great Spirits'' was written 200 years ago in 1816. We're celebrating this 200th anniversary with a blog post written by Susan Wolfson, author of Reading John Keats.
Read MoreTwo-hundred years ago, in October 1816 … . . . a brilliant young medical student, trained at Guys Hospital in London, aced his apothecary examination (apothecaries were basic practitioners). Notwithstanding this success, John Keats, who had already been writing poetry and had published one poem (a sonnet on solitude) in Leigh Hunt’s progressive weekly newspaper, […]
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Take a look at one of Rudyard Kipling's verses from the brand new edition of his poetry, 100 Poems.
Read MoreWe have a theme this week—to celebrate the new year, check out an excerpt from 100 Poems by Rudyard Kipling. Are you sticking to your New Year's resolutions? Kipling had a little trouble with his...
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