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Top 10s From Catullus to Dylan Thomas: the top 10 elegies

They date back to ancient times and remain a strong current in modern poetry. Here are some of the best

Published: 18 Jul 2018

Book of the day The sequel to Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: women, look upon these works and weep…

Anthony Holden on the ‘female’ sequel to Poems That Make Grown Men Cry – the surprise bestselling anthology he put together with his son Ben

Published: 23 Feb 2016

20 great country walks Great country walks: Tetford, Lincolnshire

Stroll through the countryside that inspired former poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson

Published: 28 Jan 2015

London’s Guildhall reveals hidden gems among collection of 4,000 paintings

Collection forgotten for 50 years after building bombed in Blitz reopens to the public in January after refurbishment

Published: 23 Dec 2014

Top 10s Top 10 war poems

This week marks a century since the outbreak of the first world war. Chosen from 1,000 years of English writing about war, poet and Oxford professor Jon Stallworthy selects some of the best attempts to think through this most extreme of human experiences

Published: 30 Jul 2014
Greenslade Drama in Crimea - historic dispatches from the father of war reporting

Published: 28 Jul 2014
Ebooks: the new reading Hear great poets of the past via the Poetry Archive

Published: 6 Jul 2014

Top 10s The best fiction featuring real writers

From Colm Tóibín to Italo Calvino, novelist Rachel Cantor describes her favourite encounters with authors who appear in other people's books

Published: 5 Feb 2014

Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson

Carol Rumens: Not a protest, but in no way a celebration of a disastrous historical event, it remains a compelling dramatisation of battle

Published: 20 Jan 2014

Podcast Christmas poems and stories – books podcast

Simon Callow and Juliet Stevenson go searching for the meaning of Christmas in a selection of readings from the British Library

Podcast

Published: 20 Dec 2013

Benjamin Britten honoured with first coin to feature poetry

Composer's centenary is marked with a 50p coin inlaid with Tennyson's line that Britten set to music

Published: 31 Aug 2013

Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor – review

Alfred Tennyson's life has now been picked over enough. Better to revisit his greatest poem, says Rachel Cooke

Published: 16 Nov 2012

10 of the best John Mullan's ten of the best: fossils

Fossils turn up in all sorts of places, from 18th-century satire to modern historical fiction

Published: 9 Mar 2012

10 of the best John Mullan's 10 of the best: New Years

From Camelot to a dismal pub in 2021, John Mullan relives the most notable New Years in literature. What has he missed?

Published: 30 Dec 2011

V&A's Photographs Gallery showcases world's oldest collection

Classic images from Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Henri Cartier-Bresson go on display at the medium's spiritual home

Published: 24 Oct 2011

10 of the best Ten of the best

Latin titles

Published: 15 Jul 2011
10 of the best Ten of the best

Coups de foudre

Published: 1 Jul 2011

Tennyson verse chosen to inspire Olympic athletes

The last line of the former poet laureate's poem Ulysses embodies Olympic values, the judges agree

Published: 4 Mar 2011

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