Many have read Wordsworth, Keats, Hardy, Milton, and Pope, not to mention Chaucer, Spencer, Shakespeare, and probably more - ...

During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

It is useful to think of the literature of Ancient Greece in three phases. It begins with Homer and Hesiod, masters of the “epic” poem, and ends with the dramatists and the prose of the philosophers ...

—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

Every week, poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive. This time he selects ‘Lyrical Ballads’, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in ...

Lyrical Alchemist Al Young Combining Poetry, Blues In honor of National Poetry Month, Farai Chideya talks with Al Young, California's Poet Laureate, about the art and joys of poetry. His latest book, ...

Selected and Edited by RICHARD GRANT WHITE. New York: The American News Company. WE confess that our heart had at times misgiven us concerning the written and printed poetry of our recent war ; but ...