“Just as the body is shaped for movement, the mind is shaped for poetry.” Jeanette Winterson writing about Carol Ann Duffy in the Guardian Introduction Each of the thirty poems in this book takes as its theme a character from history, mythology, literature or popular culture and gives […]
He died young and in love, passing away from tuberculosis at 25. But the work he left behind — much of it written in just a few short years — is acclaimed and has achieved cultural significance. His odes and epics were musically unmatched and emotionally urgent, and, like other Romantic poets, he strove for the eternal and ‘sublime’, trying through poetry to explore the “untrodden region[s] of [his] mind.”
