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W. B. Yeats, ‘The Symbolism of Poetry’, in “The Symbolism of Poetry” by William Butler Yeats, first published in The Dome (April 1900); reprinted in Ideas of Good and Evil (1903). [Source: Available at Richard Nordquist, About Education website - online; accessed 09.08.2016] I“Symbolism, as seen in the writers of our day, would have no value if it were not seen also, under one disguise

Link: http://neoenglishsystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/rape-of-lock-is-best-example-of.html The Rape of the Lock is a poem in which Alexander Pope shows himself emphatically as the spokesman of his age. This poem pictures the artificial tone of the age and the frivolous aspect of femininity. "It is the epic of triflings; a page torn from the petty, pleasure-seeking life of fashionable beauty;

Link: http://www.williamscottharkey.com/the-poetic-work-of-mourning-tennysons-in-memoriam-as-the-freudian-trauerarbeit/ The Poetic Work of Mourning: Tennyson’s In Memoriam as the Freudian Trauerarbeit The death of Lord Tennyson’s beloved friend Arthur Hallam yielded perhaps one of the most profound works of poetry and the most sorrowful elegies of commemoration in Western literature.

Link: http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic21/less3/Startseite.html I In the still predominantly British study of English literature, the term "Baroque" is hardly ever used to describe the era between the Renaissance and the age of Neoclassicism, and it seems that only scholars of comparative literature who have dared look across the Channel, such as René Wellek, as well as

Link: http://books.openedition.org/pufr/4559?lang=en Reading the poetry of John Donne can be an exhilarating and moving experience, but it can also be a baffling one. Not only is Donne’s argumentative wit frequently puzzling in itself, but it can also leave the reader uncertain as to just how much complexity should be followed up or teased out. Many of the other essays in this volume raise

Source: http://www.uwyo.edu/numimage/eliot_metaphysical_poets.htm T. S. Eliot, review of Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler. Selected and edited, with an Essay, by Herbert J. C. Grierson (Oxford: Clarendon Press. London; Milford) in the Times Literary Supplement, October 1921. [On the "dissociation of sensibility"] By collecting these poems from the