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Wordsworth's It is a Beauteous Evening: Holy and Quiet as a Nun

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Rossetti's Remember: Safekeeping Only the Good

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

The Bond of Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson: Friendship Cut Short by Tragedy

By: Jillian Bost

Brooke's The Soldier: Transcending Patriotic Service

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

The Life of Arthur Henry Hallam: Biography of the Poet and Friend of Alfred Lord Tennyson

By: Jillian Bost

Hopkins' The Habit of Perfection: Singing in the Silence

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Vaughn's Peace: Soul Bliss

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Wyatt's They Flee From Me: Women These Days

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Keats' When I have fears that I may cease to be: Love, Fame, and Nothingness

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

De la Mare's The Listeners: The Strangeness Within

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Carol Ann Duffy – British Feminist Poet: Britain's New Poet Laureate Creates Three Firsts in the Poetry World

By: James Parsons

Shakespeare Sonnets 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 150: O! from what power hast thou this powerful mght

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Robert Burns: Poet and Exciseman

By: Rosemary Gemmell

Shakespeare Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Spike Milligan – Summer Dawn – Have A Nice Day: The Comic Poet Looks on the Bright Side of Life

By: Martin G. Wood

Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock: Stinging Social Critique in a Mock Epic Poem

By: Carrie Prefontaine

The Father of English Hymnody: Isaac Watts, Prolific British Hymn Author

By: Anya Laurence

Shakespeare Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love’s own hand did make

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Robert Burns and Mary Campbell: The Scottish Bard's Highland Lassie

By: Rosemary Gemmell

Shakespeare Sonnet 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Wordsworth's "The World is too Much With Us": The Poetics of Romanticism

By: Theresa Ann White

Philip Larkin: 20th Century Poet and Literary Figure

By: Sarah Scott

Psychosexual Tones in Christabel: Coleridge's Testing of Gender Roles in His Epic Poem

By: Sandra Causey

Shakespeare Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

April Poet – George Herbert – Sonnet I: Why Idolize What May Be Rejected by the Worms?

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 139: O! Call not me to justify the wrong

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Christina Rossetti's Dream Land: A Yogic Interpretation

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

A Wartime Poetry Journal: How Poems of World War II Were Brought to Light by One Woman

By: Dulcinea Norton-Smith

Shakespeare Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Sunday at the Skin Launderette: Imaginative First Poetry Collection From Kathryn Simmonds

By: Kevin Sturton

Shakespeare Sonnet 134: So, now I have confess’d that he is thine

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Swinburne's A Forsaken Garden: Poetic Imagery Portrays How Time Reaps a Grim Harvest

By: Melody Rhodes

Shakespeare Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

March Poet - A. E. Housman: Following a Memory-Ghost in The Merry Guide

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 128: How oft when thou, my music, music play’st

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 121: ’Tis better to be vile than vile esteem’d

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Keats' O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell: The Bliss of a Kindred Spirit

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth: Two Sonnets That Describe London and Nature Around It

By: Leigh Ivey

Shakespeare Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

The Grand Tour and Canto II of Byron's Don Juan: An Allusion to England's Elite and Their Fears of Passionate Desires

By: Leigh Ivey

Percy Shelley's A Defense of Poetry: How Hidden Poets Lead to Society's Salvation

By: Leigh Ivey

Shakespeare Sonnet 118: Like as, to make our appetites more keen

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Edmund Spenser's Sonnet 89: Like as the culver, on the barèd bough - Amoretti and Epithalamion

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Poem Interpretation of Animula by T S Eliot: An Analysis of the Classical Allusions to the Stifled Soul

By: James Parsons

Shakespeare Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

T S Eliot Poem - "Morning At the Window": Eliot's Social Themes and Concerns in an Industrial Urban Landscape

By: James Parsons

Shakespeare Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crown’d with you

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

The Meaning of Robert Browning's My Last Duchess: A Dramatic Monologue Revealing Egocentrism and Objectification

By: Savannah Schroll Guz

Gerard Manley Hopkins' Spring: Resurrection and Renewal

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 129": A Few Important Points

By: Sara Thompson

Sir Philip Sidney's "Sonnet 71": A Brief Look at Some of the Poem's Important Features

By: Sara Thompson

Understanding Thomas Hardy's The Ruined Maid: Victorian Women's Economic Realities and Class Conventions

By: Savannah Schroll Guz

T S Eliot Poem -- Rhapsody on a Windy Night: A Critical Analysis of Poetry Exploring Eliot's Theme of Isolation

By: James Parsons

Shakespeare Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth the impression fill

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 111: O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 110: Alas! ’tis true I have gone here and there

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

February Poet – Wystan Hugh Auden: Analysis of The Unknown Citizen

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Gender in the Works of John Milton: An Overview of the Literary Criticism Examinining Milton's Writing

By: Carrie Prefontaine

Maud: A Monodrama by Alfred Lord Tennyson: An Overview of Important Aspects

By: Jing Heng Fong

Shakespeare Sonnet 109: O! Never say that I was false of heart

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Tennyson's Come Not, When I am Dead: A Versanelle of Lost Love

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

In the Valley of Cauteretz by Alfred Tennyson: Voices From Two and Thirty Years Ago

By: Jing Heng Fong

Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 19: Personification of Time, Literary Devices and Narrator's Retaliation

By: Jaclyna Perez

War in The Charge of the Light Brigade: Alfred Lord Tennyson's Rendition of Glory and Foolishness

By: Jing Heng Fong

Break, Break, Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson: Upon Cold Gray Stones

By: Jing Heng Fong

Tears, Idle Tears by Alfred Lord Tennyson: Sadness in The Princess

By: Jing Heng Fong

Shakespeare Sonnet 108: “What’s in the brain, that ink may character”

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Poetic Weaknesses in Locksley Hall: Considering Negative Aspects in Tennyson's Poem of Lost Love

By: Jing Heng Fong

Locksley Hall by Alfred Lord Tennyson: Regaining the Vision of the World

By: Jing Heng Fong

Shakespeare Sonnet 107: “Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul”

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

The Spenserian Sonnet: “One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand"

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Ambiguity in The Lady of Shalott: Revealing Uncertainty in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Poem

By: Jing Heng Fong

The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Divide in Art and Life in The Poem

By: Jing Heng Fong

Shakespeare Sonnet 106: “When in the chronicle of wasted time”

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

The Kraken by Alfred Lord Tennyson: An Immense Sea Monster's Death by Fire

By: Jing Heng Fong

Mariana by Alfred Lord Tennyson: Desolation and Loneliness at The Moated Grange

By: Jing Heng Fong

Shakespeare Sonnet 105: “Let not my love be call’d idolatry”

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Wordsworth's Surprised by Joy: The Intensity of Mystical Craving

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

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