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POETS

 

ARNOLD, Matthew

New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 8: Arnold's "Sohrab and Rustum"

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AUDEN, W. H.

New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 12: Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

W. H. Auden

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BERRY, Ciaran   (Ireland)

​Sphere of Birds

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BLAKE, William

​New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 1: Blakes "The Tygers"

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BRONTE, Emily​

Last Things : Emily Brontë's PoemsB

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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett

Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy : Challenging the Personal Voice

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Victorian Poets : A Critical Reader

New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 7: Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came."

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BURNS, Robert

The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns

Burns and Other Poets

Robert Burns at the Internet Archive

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BYRON

The Perversity of Poetry : Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius

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CHAUCER

Scott, Chaucer, and Medieval Romance : A Study in Sir Walter Scott's Indebtedness to the Literature of the Middle Ages

Serious Play : Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

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CLARK, Gillian

Gillian Clarke: Collected Poems

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CLARKE, Thomas

Yellow & Blue

 

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor

​New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 3  Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"

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CROZIER, Andrew

An Andrew Crozier Reader

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DONNE, John

Donne, Castiglione and the Poetry of Courtliness

John Donne : The Critical Heritage

John Donne's Performances : Sermons, Poems, Letters and Devotions

 

DRYDEN, John

Otherworldly John Dryden : Occult Rhetoric in His Poems and Plays

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GRAY, Thomas

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" - criticism in  Poetry for Students v. 9 at the Internet Archive

 

GUNN, Thom

"The Missing" - criticism in  Poetry for Students v. 9 at the Internet Archive

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HARDY, Thomas

Reading Thomas Hardy : Selected Poems

Thomas Hardy : Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction

New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 9: Hardy's "Hap"

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HAWKSHAW, Ann

The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw

 

JOHNSON, Samuel

Samuel Johnson : Selected Poetry and Prose

Samuel Johnson at the Internet Archive

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KEATS, John 

"Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art" - criticism in  Poetry for Students v. 9 at the Internet Archive

​New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 4: Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
John Keats at the Internet Archive

 

LAWRENCE, D. H.

D.H. Lawrence : Poet

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MINHINNICK, Robert

New Selected Poems

 

MILTON, John 

John Milton Complete Shorter Poems : Complete Shorter Poems

John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' : A Reading Guide

Religious Rite and Ceremony in Milton's Poetry

 

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JENNINGS. Elizabeth

The Collected Poems

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LATHOMAS, Dylan

Dylan Thomas

Sound and Sense in Dylan Thomas's Poetry

 

POPE, Alexander

Alexander Pope : Selected Poetry and Prose

Poets Thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

The Rape of the Lock

Alexander Pope at the Internet Archive

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SCOTT, Sir Walter

The Perversity of Poetry : Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius

Scott, Chaucer, and Medieval Romance : A Study in Sir Walter Scott's Indebtedness to the Literature of the Middle Ages

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SHAKESPEARE, William

​A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets

​The Life in the Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems

Shakespeare's Sonnets  (Callaghan)

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets  (Terry)

Shakespeare's Sonnets  (Muir)

SIDNEY, Philip

Sidney's Poetics : Imitating Creation

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SHELLEY, Percy

New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 5: Shelley's "Adonais."

 

TENNYSON

New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 6: Tennyson's "In Memoriam A.H.H."

The Perversity of Poetry : Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius

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THOMAS, Edward

​Edward Thomas : The Origins of his Poetry

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TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

​Tolkien Studies : An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume V

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WORDSWORTH, William

William Wordsworth : Lyrical Ballads 1798, with Some Poems of 1800

​New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 2: Wordsworth's "a Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"

 

YEATS, William Butler

New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 11: Yeats's "Easter 1916."

New Conservative Explications:  Chapter 10: Yeats's "Who Goes With Fergus?"

Poets Thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

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The Rise and Fall of Meter : Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930

 

 

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