Volume Contents

Listed below are the links to the issues appearing in the topical volumes of Poetically SpeakingThe Yellowed PageWorking with Pope and now Working with Eliot and Snippets


2025


Volume 2: Poetically Speaking

Issue 1: January 13 — Deceptive Expectation (pp 1,2)
Issue 2: March 2 — Believability and Understandability in Poetry (pp 3-6)
Issue 3: March 7 — The Palace of Truth — W. S. Gilbert (pp 7-12)
Issue 4: March 11 — When I Buy Pictures — Marianne Moore (pp 13-17)
Issue 5: March 21 — The Shakespearean Sonnet (pp 18-21)
Issue 6: March 25 — Two Poems by Katherine Mansfield (pp 22-26)
Issue 7: April 9 — The Sound of Autumn—Part I (From here, a new format is used.)
Issue 8: April 12 — Annabel Lee
Issue 9: May 16 — Ode to a Nightingale

Volume 2: The Yellowed Page

Issue 1: January 9 — A Letter to James Smith from T. S. Eliot (pp 1,2)
Issue 2: January 23 — Critic? Or—No Critic! (pp 3-5)
Issue 3: January 27 — Review of “The Intellectual Design of John Dryden’s Heroic Plays” (pp 6,7)
Issue 4: February 7 — Robert Frost: Regret and Disappointment – The Road Not Taken (pp 8-10)
Issue 5: March 30 — The Meaning of Style — John Middleton Murry (pp 11-14)
Issue 6: April 5 — The Egoist—An Individualist Review (From here, a new format is used.)
Issue 7: April 10 — Lord Byron’s—“The Tear”
Issue 8: April 29 — The Psychology of Style

Volume 1: Working with Eliot

Issue 1: February 12 – The Naming of Cats (Metrical Analysis) (pp 1-5)

Volume 2: Working with Pope

Issue 1: February 8 — The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 59, 81, 87, 91 & 121 (pp 1-3)
Issue 2: April 15 — The Rape of the Lock—Canto II (From here, a new format is used.)

Volume 1: Snippets

Issue 1: April 26 — The Jungle Book
Issue 2: May 8 — Mrs Dalloway
Issue 3: May 21 — Precision


2024


Volume 1: Poetically Speaking

Issue 1: August 28 — Charging Poetry with Meaning (pp 1-4)
Issue 2: September 2 — What is this Thing called Meter? (pp 5-7)
Issue 3: September 3 — The Poet’s Voice (pp 8-11)
Issue 4: September 9 — Dos and Don’ts when using Heroic Couplets (pp 12-17)
Issue 5: September 26 — Analyzing Shelley’s “Ozymandias” (pp 18-26)
Issue 6: November 2 — Whāt Has (Mother) Nature Done? (pp 27-29)
Issue 7: November 25 — The Importance of READING Poetry (pp 30-32)

Volume 1: The Yellowed Page

Issue 1: July 25 — Review of “To Look Upon Eurydice” (pp 1,2)
Issue 2: October 1 — Thoughts on T. S. Eliot’s “Shelley and Keats” (pp 3-5)
Issue 3: November 5 — Comments on Eliot’s “Reflections on Verse Libre” (p 6)
Issue 4: November 14 — What is Poetry? (pp 7-10)
Issue 5: November 20 — More Riming Couplets Please! (pp 11-13)
Issue 6: November 26 — Points from T. S. Eliot’s “Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry” (pp 14,15)
Issue 7: December 12 — Why is this Poem so Obscure? (pp 16,17) 

Volume 1: Working with Pope

Issue 1: May 30 — The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 11, 12 (pp 1,2)
Issue 2: June 2 — The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 15, 17 (pp 3-5)
Issue 3: July 18 — An Essay on Criticism (pp 6-12)
Issue 4: July 21 — The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 20, 37 (pp 13-15)
Issue 5: July 31 — The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 46, 47 (pp 16,17)
Issue 6: August 23 — An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (pp 18-26)
Issue 7: October 30 — The Rape of the Lock—Canto I (pp 27-33)