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

is one of the best-known English poets of the early 19th-century Romantic Movement. He's just as famous for his countless ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Nonexpert readers of poems from William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and other famous writers often failed ... “In its origins, poetry was not only oral, it was musical. In Old English, there’s a ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust ...

Honduran native Daniel Letona immigrated to the Boston area to build a high-tech career. He also found a community in the ...