Poets on Poets: Famous poets write poems about other famous poets. About as classy and creative a form of celebrity gossip/tribute to exist.

Written by Thomas Hood, Alice Meynell and Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Shyama Perera and Richard Mitchley

Writing poetry always seems to be something we learn at school, usually beginning with a couplet of child-like rhyme that brings gales of laughter. Later it may be agonising over a verse or two attempting to rhapsodise on love and then the years roll on with only an occasional desire to return.

In this volume we put together wordsmiths of the highest caliber as they write on Poets themselves. Many of the poems provide valuable insights on how other poets are seen by their peers. Some are deeply personal others are abstract. Whether they speak at the celebration of a birth or the knowing tragedy of entering a slaughterous battle these poets take us into new uncharted territories revealing their inner selves in raw and tender ways.

Yeats, Flecker, Benet, Yeats, Dickinson, Coleridge, Millay, Levy, Gurney are but a few of their number who speak with the clarity, the eloquence and the truth that only a poet can know….but all can share.

01 - Poets on Poets - An Introduction

02 - A Caution to Poets by Matthew Arnold

03 - To a Poet by Emily Hickey

04 - To a Poet by Alice Meynell

05 - To a Poet by Claude McKay

06 - To Poets by Charles Sorley

07 - The Poet by Aleksandr Pushkin

08 - The Poet by Radclyffe Hall

09 - The Poet by Paul Laurence Dunbar

10 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell

11 - Sonnet VII - Sweet Poet of the Woods by Charlotte Smith

12 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen

13 - False Poets and True (To Wordsworth) by Thomas Hood

14 - On Dryden by Christopher Caudwell

15 - On Poet-Ape by Ben Jonson

16 - On the Morals of Poets by Richard Le Gallienne

17 - The Poets by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

18 - The Toast by Ernest Rhys

19 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet

20 - To Alex Smith, the Glasgow Poet by George Meredith

21 - The Peasant Poet by John Clare

22 - London Poets by Amy Levy

23 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson

24 - A Poet's Hope by Ambrose Bierce

25 - The Poet's Portion by Thomas Hood

26 - Poets by Khalil Gibran

27 - The Poet's Apology by Aristophanes

28 - A Tale of the Miser and His Poet by Anne Kingsmill Finch

29 - The Poet, the Oyster and Sensitive Plant by William Cowper

30 - The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad by Robert Herrick

31 - Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson

32 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell

33 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

34 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats

35 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell

36 - To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker

37 - The Young Poet by James Elroy Flecker

38 - Portrait of the Author by William Carlos Williams

39 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell

40 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell

37 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce

42 - A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns

43 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson

44 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

45 - The Martyr Poets - Did Not Tell by Emily Dickinson

46 - Trench Poets by Edgell Rickword

47 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon

48 - A Poet Unknown by Ernest Rhys

49 - To the Poet Before Battle by Ivor Gurney

50 - The Poets Are Waiting by Harold Munro

51 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge

52 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler

53 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas

54 - This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson

55 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy

56 - The Old Poet by James Elroy Flecker

57 - The

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Aug 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803544960