Currently reading: Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014 by Clive James 📚
Category: Poetry
Posted on April 29, 2018
Porthcawl won with the last kick of the game 🏉
Posted on April 13, 2018
Posted on April 1, 2018
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**Spring**
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To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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*Edna St. Vincent Millay*
Posted on February 26, 2018

Edna St Vincent Millay is one of my favourite poets – just noticed and appreciated this article, published on the anniversary of her birth, February 22nd 1892: Edna St Vincent Millay's poetry has been eclipsed by her personal life – let's change that 📚
Posted on January 4, 2018
Grave of John Keats in the Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome

Posted on January 3, 2018
Keats-Shelley House



Posted on January 3, 2018
Checked in at Fondazione Keats-Shelley Memorial
Posted on September 15, 2017
🔖Bookmark ― Mary Shelley review – sturdy literary biopic fails to resurrect spirit of author ― but I do still want to see this.
Posted on August 4, 2017
The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay in 1792 – The Later Romantics

