Lady Godiva and Me

So having demonstrated that most of the famous Defences of poetry are little more than wishful thinking and silly claims, usually written by...

It's not often I get excited by a book review,  the most recent one in the LRB of Burton's Bunting Biography was more about the revi...

This poem, by John Hewitt,  should be better known, so as it's today of all days, I'd like to post it here.  For an Irishman in Co...

In T he Social Function of Poetry Eliot tried to negotiate the contradictions. There is an obvious tension in the essay between...

In the twentieth century, writers continued to make claims for poetry and poets, and despite their often hard-headed approach to t...

Does any of this really matter? Who cares what some disappointed aristocrat wrote to soothe his sense of career failure ...