www.RichardPoole.net - Fiction, Poetry, Literary Criticism

Criticism

This section collects together discussions of writers and writing.

Where essays have been previously published, the relevant magazine is acknowledged.

The section on Richard Hughes contains an Introduction and five essays.

Fiction

Thomas Harris and Hannibal Lecter

Richard Hughes

Vladimir Nabokov's Enchanter

Philip Pullman and the Republic of Heaven

NEW In a Strange Land: Glyn Jones's The Island of Apples

NEW Dan Brown's Symbol

Poetry

NEW George Barker

NEW Idris Davies: The Bitter Dreamer

NEW Alun Lewis and Keith Douglas: Soldier Poets

NEW Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

NEW C. H. Sisson

NEW Dylan Thomas's Double Vision

NEW R. S. Thomas as Religious Poet

NEW The Splinter of Ice at the Heart of Things: the Poetry of John Tripp

NEW The Poetry of John Davies

NEW John Ormond and Wallace Stevens: Harmonious Sceptics

NEW John Ormond's Voices

Miscellany

NEW Poetry and Death

NEW C. H. Sisson's Christopher Homm

Shelley as Symbolist

T. S. Eliot and Tennyson

Book Reviews

Poetry

NEW Anne Stevenson: Granny Scarecrow

NEW Dannie Abse: White Coat, Purple Coat

NEW Glyn Jones: Selected Poems 1946-1986

NEW Robert Minhinnick: Life Sentences; Mike Jenkins: Empire of Smoke

NEW R. S. Thomas: Destinations