Introducing the poet and the Poem It was Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888), who wrote the poem ‘The Forsaken Merman’. He was not only a famous poet of the Victorian era but the inspector of the government of school, a renowned critic, as well as, a professor of poetry at Oxford University. ‘Thyrsis’, Rugby Chapel’, …
It was John Donne, the renowned metaphysical poet who wrote the poem The Good-Morrow. It was first published posthumously in Donne’s collection Songs and Sonnets (1633). It is regarded as one of his first poems The Good-Morrow is a description of a perfect relationship in which the speaker of the poem as well as his …
About the Novel It was Charles Dickens, the famous Victorian novelist who wrote Great Expectations, which is not only his 13th novel but his penultimate completed one as well. The novel was first published serially in All the Year Round (a weekly periodical of the writer) in 1860-61. , it was also issued in 1861. …
It is the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, the Scottish poet, who wrote A Child’s Sleep. The poem was first published in her Meeting Midnight (1999) which is a collection of poems written specifically for children. A Child’s Sleep is a description of the ideal and peaceful description of a child under the watchful eye …
It was Siegfried Sassoon, the war poet and Ist World War soldier who wrote Attack which is a descriptive and eye-opening poem about the bitter truth of war as well as what it feels like to be a soldier. It was first published in Sassoon’s collection Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918). This poem is a …
It was Leigh Hunt who wrote the poem Abou Ben Adhem. Though this poet is not much famous for his poetry and he is better known for his role in facilitating the work of other poets at the time like P. B. Shelley as well as John Keats, this poem is one of the handfuls …
It was Wilfred Owen who wrote the popular poem 1914. In fact, it is a Petrarchan sonnet about the outbreak of the Ist World War. Wilfred Owen’s poem 1914 is a lamentation of the destructiveness of war. Not only this, it also compares the rise as well as the fall of European or Western civilization …
Church Going is a very famous poem by Philip Larkin which was first published in his first mature poetry collection Less Deceived in 1955. It is known as a thought-provoking poem about religion as well as history. The speaker of Philip Larkin’s poem Church Going casually visits an empty church. It is a place he …
About the Poem Edward Thomas wrote the poem Rain in 1916 (when was in training as a World War I soldier) which appeared in the collection Poems in 1917, shortly after the death of the poet at the Battle of Arras. It contemplates the loneliness of life as well as the inevitability of death. Here, …
About the Poem To The Evening Star is a poem written by William Blake. This Blake’s early poem made its first appearance in his 1783 collection entitled Poetical Sketches. It is a (I) short, as well as (II) deceptively simple poetic piece of writing. Here, the speaker of To the Evening Star prays to the …
