Robert Grave poem “How it started” No 2 in “How poetry works.”
Marvell’s To his Coy Mistress: the poet meets the pants man
Emily Dickinson’s Metaphysical Poetry: Because I could not stop for Death
A Quiet Passion and The Importance of being Emily
How poetry works: two love poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18: The transient and immortal nature of beauty
How poetry works: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73
The man and his muse (ii): Robert Graves and the White Goddess
Men and their muses (i): two ends of the spectrum
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130: An unromantic love poem
Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess is the story of a rich powerful old man and his trophy wives.