Through close readings of poetry by Blake, Coleridge, Cowper, Keats, Charlotte Smith and Wordsworth, Watchwords uncovers a strain of poetics especially concerned with the militarization of attention, ...

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

Day by day Dorothy Wordsworth celebrated spring’s arrival in her ‘Alfoxden Journal’ while her brother and Coleridge wrote the poems that would make up one of the world’s most famous books, Lyrical ...

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Dr Gail McConnell is an internationally renowned critic of poetry and an award-winning poet whose first ... 2. Analyse critically selected major political developments and trends in Europe since the ...

In the modern world, as in prehistory, the nature of poetry follows necessarily from the nature of its material (language) and from its ‘active function’ in society. footnote 42 Accordingly, we will ...