Poetically Speaking
Volume 3, 2026
Issue 3 — The Mighty (and Not So Mighty) Pause (Jan.29)
Issue 2 — Controlling the Pace of a Poem (Jan, 23)
Issue 1 — Poetic Drama: What It Is, and Why We Need It. (Jan. 7)
Volume 2, 2025
Issue 15 — In Brief: Blank Verse (Nov. 14)
Issue 14 — A Short Discourse on Rime (Sep. 4)
Issue 13 — The Stanza: Its Use and Meaning (Aug. 7)
Issue 12 — "When We Two Parted" (Jul. 3)
Issue 11 — The Feminine Ending (Jun. 22)
Issue 10 — Scansion: Is It Important? (Jun. 11)
Issue 9 — "Ode to a Nightingale" (May 16)
Issue 8 — "Annabel Lee" (Apr. 12)
Issue 7 — The Sound of Autumn — Part I (Apr. 9)
Issue 6 — Two Poems by Katherine Mansfield (Mar. 25)
Issue 5 — The Shakespearean Sonnet (Mar. 21)
Issue 4 — When I Buy Pictures — Marianne Moore (Mar. 11)
Issue 3 — The Palace of Truth (Mar. 7)
Issue 2 — Believability and Understandability in Poetry (Mar. 2)
Issue 1 — Deceptive Expectation (Jan. 13)
Volume 1, 2024
Issue 7 — The Importance of READING Poetry (Nov. 25)
Issue 6 — Whāt Has Mother (Nature) Done? (Nov. 2)
Issue 5 — Analyzing Shelley's "Ozymandias" (Sep. 26)
Issue 4 — Dos and Don'ts when using Heroic Couplets (Sep. 9)
Issue 3 — The Poet's Voice (Sep. 3)
Issue 2 — What is this Thing called Meter? (Sep. 2)
Issue 1 — Charging Poetry with Meaning (Aug. 28)
Snippets
Volume 1, 2025
Issue 5 — The Hidden Beauty in Heroic Plays (Aug. 25)
Issue 4 — Restoration Comedy (Aug. 4)
Issue 3 — Precision - John Middleton Murry (May 21)
Issue 2 — Mrs Dalloway (May 8)
Issue 1 — The Jungle Book (Apr. 26)
The Yellowed Page
Volume 3, 2026
Volume 2, 2025
Issue 11 — Perfecting the Poem (Sep. 13)
Issue 10 — Poetry and Prose (Jul. 21)
Issue 9 — Tradition: What Happened to Poetry? (May 30)
Issue 8 — The Psychology of Style — John Middleton Murry (Apr. 29)
Issue 7 — Lord Byron's "The Tear" (Apr. 10)
Issue 6 — The Egoist — An Individualist Review (Apr. 5)
Issue 5 — The Meaning of Style — John Middleton Murry (Mar. 30)
Issue 4 — Robert Frost: Regret and Disappointment (Feb. 2)
Issue 3 — The Intellectual Design of John Dryden's Heroic Plays (Jan. 27)
Issue 2 — Critic? Or — No Critic! (Jan. 23)
Issue 1 — A Letter to James Smith from T. S. Eliot (Jan. 9)
Volume 1, 2024
Issue 7 — Why is this Poem so Obscure? (Dec. 12)
Issue 6 — Points from T. S. Eliot's "Ezra Pound His Metric and Poetry (Nov. 21)
Issue 5 — More Riming Couplets Please! (Nov. 20)
Issue 4 — What is Poetry? (Nov. 14)
Issue 3 — Comments on Eliot's "Reflections of vers libre" (Nov. 5)
Issue 2 — Thoughts on T. S. Eliot's "Shelley and Keats" (Oct. 1)
Issue 1 — Review of "To Look Upon Eurydice" by Kenneth Daniel Wisseman (Jul. 25)
Working with Auden
Volume 1, 2025
Issue 1 — Auden on Reading (Dec. 28)
Working with Eliot
Volume 1, 2025
Issue 3 — Pondering "Burnt Norton" (Aug. 21)
Issue 2 — The Eumenides (Jul. 12)
Issue 1 — The Naming of Cats (Feb. 2)
Working with Pope
Volume 2, 2025
Issue 2 — The Rape of the Lock — Canto II (Apr. 15)
Issue 1 — The Dunciad —Book I—Verses 59, 81, 87, 91 & 121 (Feb. 8)
Volume 1, 2024
Issue 7 — The Rape of the Lock — Canto I (Oct. 30)
Issue 6 — An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Aug. 23)
Issue 5 — The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 46, 77 (Jul. 31)
Issue 4 — The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 20, 37 (Jul. 21)
Issue 3 — An Essay on Criticism (Jul. 18)
Issue 2 — The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 15, 17 (Jun. 2)
Issue 1 — The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 11, 12 (May 30)
Working with Pound
Volume 1, 2025
Issue 1 — Pound's - "Sestina: Altaforte" (Oct. 9)