Barbara Everett is the author of Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespearean Tragedy (OUP, 1989), and has edited Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra (New Signet, 1964) and All's Well that Ends Well (Penguin, 1970). Poets in their Time was originally published by Faber & Faber in 1986 (now o/p).

quite exceptionally good ... one of the finest collections of criticism for years ... It blends historical insight and critical perception with real originality

• Donne - a London poet; the shooting of the bears - poetry and politics in Andrew Marvell; the end of the big names - Milton's epic catalogues; rochester - the sense of nothing; Tibbles - a new life of Pope; Keats - somebody reading; Browning versions; the new style of "Sweeney Agonistes"; Auden askew; Philip Larkin - after symbolism; Larkin's Edens; poetry and soda.

Barbara Everett is the author of Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespearean Tragedy (OUP, 1989), and has edited Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra (New Signet, 1964) and All's Well that Ends Well (Penguin, 1970). Poets in their Time was originally published by Faber & Faber in 1986 (now o/p).

quite exceptionally good ... one of the finest collections of criticism for years ... It blends historical insight and critical perception with real originality

• Donne - a London poet; the shooting of the bears - poetry and politics in Andrew Marvell; the end of the big names - Milton's epic catalogues; rochester - the sense of nothing; Tibbles - a new life of Pope; Keats - somebody reading; Browning versions; the new style of "Sweeney Agonistes"; Auden askew; Philip Larkin - after symbolism; Larkin's Edens; poetry and soda.

Barbara Everett is the author of Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespearean Tragedy (OUP, 1989), and has edited Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra (New Signet, 1964) and All's Well that Ends Well (Penguin, 1970). Poets in their Time was originally published by Faber & Faber in 1986 (now o/p).

quite exceptionally good ... one of the finest collections of criticism for years ... It blends historical insight and critical perception with real originality

• Donne - a London poet; the shooting of the bears - poetry and politics in Andrew Marvell; the end of the big names - Milton's epic catalogues; rochester - the sense of nothing; Tibbles - a new life of Pope; Keats - somebody reading; Browning versions; the new style of "Sweeney Agonistes"; Auden askew; Philip Larkin - after symbolism; Larkin's Edens; poetry and soda.