An elegy to the poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmth
An elegy to the poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmth
On the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel Johnson
Condemned to Hope’s delusive mine
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blast or slow decline,
Nathaniel Parker, best known for his roles in Inspector Linely and Maigret, reads “On the Death of Dr Robert Levet” by Samuel…
From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving
The radical young poet’s backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism
English poet John Donne's profound words on despair and joy resonate today. His quote, 'Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is…
Two sonnets absorb with calm clarity a boy’s anguish at his mother’s loss
The moon becomes the witty image of an isolated and contemptuously neglected elderly relation
