Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Wilfred Owen wrote the first draft of his most famous work in the autumn of 1917 while recovering from shell-shock in a Scottish hospital. Completed in 1918, the poem includes horrific ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... Ditlevsen died by suicide at the age of 58 in 1976. She was one of the most famous writers in Denmark, but only became well-known to Anglophone ...

“Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t Homeric in length: “Michael was a miniaturist.” By Joanne ...

The simple, yet powerful image in Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon’s pensive poem Mambazham (1936) of a mother offering a mango to her son, where he had been buried, months after she had reprimanded ...