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"The Waste Land" is one of the most widely read poems in the world and one of the least understood. My only prior knowledge of thi...

After reading so much poetry, I thought it would be a relief to finally read prose again. I was wrong. Not to say James Joyce is not importa...

Although Years probably never intended for it to be so, "The Second Coming" is what I consider (along with Poe's "The Rav...

World War 1 was thought to be the war that would end all wars. The sheer scale of the conflict absorbed the entire planet as resources and m...

At first reading Pygmalion, I could easily understand Shaw's connection with Henrik Ibsen. It was also only with Shaw that I first under...

Hardy's "Epitaph" seemed to be a strange piece for him to write, especially at the time he did. Hardy died in 1928 and this pa...

Out of any poet who wrote during the Victorian, I would say that Hopkins's poetry most directly matched his personality and life. Many o...