Edgell Rickword (1898-1982), one of the great radical editors and critics of the century, was a poet whose three volumes and a scattering of layer poems merit the accolade of The Times Literary Supplement: he is the best English poet between Eliot an...

With all his contradictions, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the fathers of modern literature and the Duino Elegies one of its great monuments. Begun in 1912 but not completed until 1922, they are "modern" in almost every sense the word has...

This selection from Peter Russell's work of many years illustrates the range of a poet who, in Kathleen Raine's words, has "kept faith (as did his master Ezra Pound) with what is perhaps the greatest imaginative and philosophical conception of the Eu...

Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her "Goblin Market and Other Poems" (1862) having been – as if by accident – the writing from that group which first caught public attention. It contains many of her best poems....