The long poem is just right for our confounding, fractured age
The long poem is the right literary form for the unmanageable scale, the messy confusion and the epic ambivalence of our age
by Tess Somervell
Tess Somervell is lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson, and Wordsworth (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).
Written by Tess Somervell