Two types of aesthetic
A pithy way to categorize an aesthetic response - the straightforward reflection of a mirror or the more complex refraction...
A poet’s eye view of the poet
I always liked Ezra Pound's definition of the poet as being the 'antenna of the race'. Here Wallace Stevens enlarges...
Blotted images and spotted mirrors
An original way to convey a flawed image, likening it to the spots you used to find on old mirrors,...
Love and thought
This beautiful, measured poem by Michael Drayton (1563-1631), poet laureate, was written the night before he died, addressed to the woman he had...
Poems for my family 008 – Drayton
Listening time: under 5 minutes. One of the greatest love poems in English, this was written by Michael...
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