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British Isles Poets
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POETS
 
ARNOLD, Matthew
New Conservative Explications Chapter 8: Arnold's "Sohrab and Rustum"
AUDEN, W. H.
New Conservative Explications Chapter 12: Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"
W. H. Auden
BERRY, Ciaran   (Ireland)
​Sphere of Birds
BLAKE, William
New Conservative Explications Chapter 1: Blakes "The Tygers"
BRONTE, Emily
Last Things : Emily Brontë's PoemsB
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."
BURNS, Robert
The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns
Burns and Other Poets
Robert Burns at the Internet Archive
BYRON
The Perversity of Poetry : Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius
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
CLARK, Gillian
Gillian Clarke: Collected Poems
CLARKE, Thomas
Yellow & Blue
 
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor
New Conservative Explications Chapter 3  Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
CROZIER, Andrew
An Andrew Crozier Reader
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
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
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"
HAWKSHAW, Ann
The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw
 
JOHNSON, Samuel
Samuel Johnson : Selected Poetry and Prose
Samuel Johnson at the Internet Archive
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
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
 
JENNINGS. Elizabeth
The Collected Poems
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
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
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
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
THOMAS, Edward
Edward Thomas : The Origins of his Poetry
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
​Tolkien Studies : An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume V
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
The Rise and Fall of Meter : Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930
 
 
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