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As previously discussed, poetry lies at one end of a spectrum: poems are by definition highly precise, usually much shorter,...

Eliot continues the theme of reconciliation or transcendence of opposites introduced in the first two sections of Little Gidding in the...

Eliot started writing 'Little Gidding' while recovering from an illness, completing the first draft in July 1941. But he was unhappy with...

’Little Gidding’ by T. S. Eliot is a long poem which merits detailed study. It is the culmination of Eliot’s poetry in many ways: a...

British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965) was one of the twentieth century's...

One of the main figures of the Romantic movement, John Keats (1795 – 1821) only managed to get into publication four years before his...

Philip Larkin has been called the other English poet laureate, though he is widely read in Europe and in the United States. Larkin’s idea...

In September, 1848, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and others founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,...

’Jerusalem’, by William Blake, from the preface of ‘Milton a Poem’, first printed in 1804, was originally called ‘And Did Those Feet in...

Poetry, like other forms of creative writing, is fiction, in the sense that it is ‘made up’: the poet puts words together not for any...