In A Pin
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude&quo…
In In The Trenches
Dr. O'Hagan writes with a clear eye, a sane mind, and a sensitive heart. While agreeing in the main with Walter de la Mare, that "every…
In Insects
John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countrys…
In Erie Waters
"Her death is not only a great loss to those who knew and loved her: it is a great loss to Canadian literature and to the Canadian nati…
In Goin' Home To-Day
William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life."What Robert Burns did for the S…
In Oh, For a Home of Rest!
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a travelin…
In ''In Re a Gentleman, One''
Paterson lived and worked in Sydney for most of his adult life, but his poems mostly presented a highly romantic view of the bush and the ic…
In A Late Good Night
Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and anothe…
In Uphill
Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, mostly imitating her favoured poets. From 1847 she began experimenting with vers…
