Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how poetry can also be a consolation for that turmoil. No list of famous poems ...

encouraging her to write poetry. By 1767, she had published her first poem, On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin. One of Wheatley's most famous works is her poem On Being Brought from Africa to America ...

Over the course of six short clips, Simon Armitage goes behind the scenes of some of his most famous poems. These clips are from the BBC series Simon Armitage: Writing Poems. Suitable for ...