Part. I The complete introductions -- Truth Out of Time / W. H. Auden -- She Came. She Saw. She Changed the View / Elizabeth Bishop -- The Company He Kept... / Robert Browning -- Not Laughing But Weeping / Lord Byron -- Heavenly Hurt / Emily Dickinson -- I Gotta Use Words When I Talk to You / T. S. Eliot -- The Poet of Terror / Robert Frost -- So Kiss'd to Sleep / John Keats -- Word Warrior / Rudyard Kipling -- Too Clever to Live? / Philip Larkin -- My mind's not right / Robert Lowell -- Simply Sublime / John Milton -- Poetry ... I, Too, Dislike It / Marianne Moore -- The Woman is Perfected / Sylvia Plath -- Upstairs, Downstairs... / Christina Rossetti -- What Stopped Him? / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Defiant Passions / Walt Whitman -- Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves / Oscar Wilde -- A Pity Beyond All Telling / William Butler Yeats -- pt. II THE POET IN THE GARDEN -- Creating the Garden -- Gardening -- Gardens of the Imagination -- A Walk Through the Woods.

Life saving: why poetry matters leaves us an inspiring legacy. It takes us on a journey of the imagination to some of the greatest poems written in the English language and allows us to understand, intuitively and deeply, why poetry matters.