English Composition Resource Guide

This topic page provides related topics and information on the history of poetry.

This is a list of resources in our online catalog about poetry history and criticism.

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Her poetry had modest beginnings: offerings to two literary magazines, which won her prizes in 1959 and 1960. In the early sixties, she published a number of volumes of poetry under different pseudonyms, each pseudonym being warmly praised.

Through works exploring the significance of beauty, joy, and imagination in a world of suffering and death, Keats was one of the great poets of the Romantic era and is generally acknowledged to have been among the finest writers of personal correspondence in English.

Capturing the restless, questioning spirit of the early seventeenth century, Donne established the Metaphysical poetic style—witty, colloquial, and dramatic—in love poetry that was both devotional and erotic.

Seamus Justin Heaney (HEE-nee) is widely regarded as the greatest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats, and indeed as one of the foremost contemporary poets in the English language. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Articles about Seamus Heaney in Cougar Search

Articles about the poem "To Autumn"

Articles about Gwen Harwood

This is an article about John Donne's poem "The Flea".

This is a list books about John Keats. If you click on limit/sort search at the top of the page, you can limit to e-books or print books.

This classic program looks back over Heaney’s career at the time his best-selling collection Seeing Things—a return to the rural childhood territory of his very first book—was published, offering a rare opportunity to hear the poet read and discuss his work.

Synonymous with metaphysical poetry, John Donne combined wit with passion, startling diction with curious contrasts. This program chronicles his extraordinary life as lawyer, lover, sailor, father, preacher, and poet.