Each month, WPOM features a prominent poet from throughout history.

We feature six clues (3 per show on the first two weeks of the month) and unveil the poet's identity on the third week. 

​Our March Poet Of The Month Is...

Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell is surely the single most compelling embodiment of the change that came over English society and letters in the course of the 17th century. In an era that makes a better claim than most upon the familiar term transitional, Marvell wrote a varied array of exquisite lyrics that blend Cavalier grace with Metaphysical wit and complexity. He first turned into a panegyrist for the Lord Protector and his regime and then into an increasingly bitter satirist and polemicist, attacking the royal court and the established church in both prose and verse. It is as if the most delicate and elusive of butterflies somehow metamorphosed into a caterpillar. Learn more here...

Each month, we provide six clues (three per week in the first two weeks) 

Week One 

​1. A poet politically protesting with verse
2. Dutifully took part in a rehearsal transposed
3. The young puritan, escaped, refuge taken in a bookshop

Week Two

1. The Painter received last instruction
2. A mistress, so coy
3. Has we but world enough, and time