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Tom Hosker

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11 votes

1 answer

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Why is London 'the town which Brutus sought by dreams'?

asked Jul 21, 2020 at 18:50

9 votes

3 answers

714 views

Who is the 'pale Titan-woman' in Swinburne's 'Ave atque Vale'?

asked Nov 2 at 19:15

8 votes

1 answer

65 views

Who is the 'Immortal Hale' in William Cowper's The Task?

asked Oct 1, 2019 at 20:13

7 votes

1 answer

131 views

Does Auden's poem 'The Model' refer to any particular painting?

asked Jun 8, 2021 at 20:30

7 votes

1 answer

498 views

What are 'The cobweb clues of Rosamond'?

asked Oct 15 at 22:26

6 votes

0 answers

93 views

Who or what is 'our God' in Swinburne's 'Ave atque Vale'?

asked Nov 2 at 20:10

6 votes

1 answer

158 views

What does it mean for Venus to 'read my case' in Drummond of Hawthornden's madrigal?

asked Aug 11, 2020 at 18:48

5 votes

0 answers

373 views

Who is the 'one who had lifted it' in Shelley's sonnet about 'the painted veil'?

asked Sep 15, 2020 at 18:07

4 votes

1 answer

288 views

Are these lines by Thomas Nuce a translation and/or taken from a longer poem?

asked Sep 3 at 18:13

4 votes

2 answers

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Why does the speaker in the famous poem want the western wind to blow?

asked Sep 11 at 17:16

4 votes

1 answer

163 views

Is Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's poem 'The Camel Rider' really a translation?

asked Sep 10, 2019 at 18:05

4 votes

1 answer

60 views

To which 'Argive queen' was Ben Jonson referring in his verse letter to the Countess of Rutland?

asked Aug 4, 2020 at 19:09

4 votes

2 answers

216 views

Did Lord Byron fluff his Greek in his poem beginning 'Maid of Athens, ere we part'?

asked Oct 31 at 19:15

4 votes

1 answer

319 views

Which poet explained 'why sweet Hesper glows'?

asked Oct 25 at 17:22

3 votes

2 answers

125 views

Is Plarr's 'Epitaphium Citharistriae' a translation?

asked Oct 24 at 23:02

3 votes

1 answer

91 views

What did W M Praed mean by 'see if he turns out his toe'?

asked Oct 27 at 18:19

2 votes

1 answer

171 views

Who are the 'sweet Saterian dames'?

asked Oct 26 at 18:14

2 votes

1 answer

81 views

In which poem(s) in Day by Day does Robert Lowell describe erectile dysfunction?

asked Oct 28, 2020 at 19:29