Barbara Everett

Barbara Everett’s books include Young Hamlet and Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin.

In the LRB Archive:

• Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet: the Sonnets · 8 May 2008

• Making and Breaking in Shakespeare’s Romances: The Late Plays · 22 March 2007

• A Lethal Fall: Larkin and Chandler · 11 May 2006

• Whirligig: Thinking about Hamlet · 2 September 2004

• Love with Time Let in: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ · 8 January 2004

• Alphabeted: Coleridge the Modernist · 7 August 2003

  • Coleridge’s Notebooks: A Selection edited by Seamus Perry
  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works I: Poems (Reading Text) edited by J.C.C. Mays
  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works II: Poems (Variorum Text) edited by J.C.C. Mays
  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works III: Plays edited by J.C.C. Mays

• A Dreame of Passion: Shakespeare’s Most Peculiar Play · 2 January 2003

• Distraction v. Attraction: Ashbery, Larkin and Eliot · 27 June 2002

• Unwritten Masterpiece on Dryden’s ‘Hamlet’ · 4 January 2001

• Hard Romance · 8 February 1996

• Kipling’s Lightning-Flash · 10 January 1991

• The Fatness of Falstaff · 16 August 1990

• Being all right, and being wrong · 12 July 1990

  • Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989 by Anthony Powell
  • Haydn and the Valve Trumpet by Craig Raine

• Impersonality · 10 November 1988

  • A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers by Hugh Kenner

• Growing · 31 March 1988

• Philistines · 2 April 1987

• Mrs Shakespeare · 18 December 1986

  • William Shakespeare: The Sonnets and ‘A Lover’s Complaint’ edited by John Kerrigan

• Tibbles · 17 October 1985

  • Alexander Pope by Maynard Mack
  • Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ by A.D. Nuttall
  • The Last and Greatest Art: Some Unpublished Poetical Manuscripts of Alexander Pope by Maynard Mack
  • The New Oxford Book of 18th-Century Verse by Roger Lonsdale
  • Collected in Himself: Essays Critical, Biographical and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of his Contemporaries by Maynard Mack

• Eliot at smokefall · 24 January 1985

• The Pleasures of Poverty · 6 September 1984

  • A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Letters and Diaries by Barbara Pym, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym

• Somebody reading · 21 June 1984

  • The Odes of Keats by Helen Vendler

• Browning Versions · 4 August 1983

  • Robert Browning: A Life within Life by Donald Thomas
  • The Elusive Self in the Poetry of Robert Browning by Constance Hassett
  • The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Vol. V edited by Roma King
  • The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Vol. I edited by Ian Jack and Margaret Smith
  • Robert Browning: The Poems edited by John Pettigrew, by Thomas Collins
  • Robert Browning: ‘The Ring and the Book’ edited by Richard Altick

• Larkin and Us · 4 November 1982

  • Larkin at Sixty edited by Anthony Thwaite
  • The Art of Philip Larkin by Simon Petch

• Poetry and Christianity · 4 February 1982

  • Three for Water-Music by Donald Davie
  • The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse edited by Donald Davie

• Auden Askew · 19 November 1981

  • W.H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
  • Early Auden by Edward Mendelson

• Henry James and Romance · 18 June 1981

  • Henry James Letters, Vol. III: 1883-1895 edited by Leon Edel
  • Culture and Conduct in the Novels of Henry James by Alwyn Berland
  • Literary Reviews and Essays, A London Life, The Reverberator, Italian Hours, The Sacred Fount, Watch and Ward by Henry James

• Parodies · 7 May 1981

  • A Night in the Gazebo by Alan Brownjohn
  • Victorian Voices by Anthony Thwaite
  • The Illusionists by John Fuller

• Poetry and Soda · 5 February 1981

  • The Penguin Book of Unrespectable Verse edited by Geoffrey Grigson
  • The Penguin Book of Light Verse edited by Gavin Ewart

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