Poets on Poets

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 Introduction02 - A Caution to Poets by Matthew Arnold03 - To a Poet by Emily Hickey04 - To a Poet by Alice Meynell05 - To a Poet by Claude McKay06 - To Poets by Charles Sorley07 - The Poet by Aleksandr Pushkin08 - The Poet by Radclyffe Hall09 - The Poet by Paul Laurence Dunbar10 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell11 - Sonnet VII - Sweet Poet of the Woods by Charlotte Smith12 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen13 - False Poets and True (To Wordsworth) by Thomas Hood14 - On Dryden by Christopher Caudwell15 - On Poet-Ape by Ben Jonson16 - On the Morals of Poets by Richard Le Gallienne17 - The Poets by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow18 - The Toast by Ernest Rhys19 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet20 - To Alex Smith, the Glasgow Poet by George Meredith21 - The Peasant Poet by John Clare22 - London Poets by Amy Levy23 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson24 - A Poet's Hope by Ambrose Bierce25 - The Poet's Portion by Thomas Hood26 - Poets by Khalil Gibran27 - The Poet's Apology by Aristophanes28 - A Tale of the Miser and His Poet by Anne Kingsmill Finch29 - The Poet, the Oyster and Sensitive Plant by William Cowper30 - The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad by Robert Herrick31 - Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson32 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell33 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge34 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats35 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell36 - To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker37 - The Young Poet by James Elroy Flecker38 - Portrait of the Author by William Carlos Williams39 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell40 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell37 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce42 - A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns43 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson44 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning45 - The Martyr Poets - Did Not Tell by Emily Dickinson46 - Trench Poets by Edgell Rickword47 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon48 - A Poet Unknown by Ernest Rhys49 - To the Poet Before Battle by Ivor Gurney50 - The Poets Are Waiting by Harold Munro51 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge52 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler53 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas54 - This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson55 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy56 - The Old Poet by James Elroy Flecker57 - The Poet to Death by Sarojini Naidu58 - A Poet's Dying Hymn by Grace Aguilar59 - The Poet's Death by John Clare60 - To A Dead Poet by Amy Levy61 - At a Poet's Grave by Francis Ledwidge62 - To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare and What He hath Left Us by Ben Jonson63 - The Poet and His Book by Edna St Vincent Millay64 - The Passionate Reader to His Poet by Richard Le Gallienne