First Known When Lost

I'd like to stay with the sounds of the sea for a moment longer.  John Freeman's " The Hounds ," which appeared in my prev...

The closing lines of John Masefield's " The Dead Knight " -- "The mournful word the seas say/When tides are wandering out...

My previous post on John Masefield got me to thinking about another poem by him.  The poem may seem anachronistic to some.  After all, who w...

The early life of John Masefield sounds like something out of a novel by Charles Dickens.  He was born in 1878 in Herefordshire, where his f...

Some might think that Arthur Symons's " The Soul's Progress " (which appeared in my previous post) presents a too-bleak vi...

As I have mentioned before, I am fond of the poets of the 1890s.  When it comes to describing the natural world, they tend to insert themsel...

My previous post, which included two four-line poems by Edward Thomas and Michael Longley, got me to thinking about four-line poems in gene...

Edward Thomas wrote four four-line poems:  " In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) ," "The Cherry Trees," "When he should laug...

J. C. Squire (1884-1958) is now known (if at all) as a traditionalist who was opposed to the project of literary "modernism."  Whe...

In my previous post , I noted the imminent arrival of the crocus.  However, as I suggested, perhaps I shouldn't be too impatient.  All i...