Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. A Sotheby's employee handles a copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the most important book in ... [+] English Literature. The book is estimated ...

Poet William Basse wrote: My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie a little further on to make thee room. But it was not until 29th January 1741 (1740 in ...

The poet Sir William Davenant (or D'Avenant) is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. He was buried in the grave from which his Roundhead rival Thomas May had been ejected at the Restoration.

and thence via the experimental writer William Burroughs who intro­duced Blake to Allen Ginsberg (the latter, at the age of 22, was mas­tur­bating while reading Blake’s poetry when he ...

Photo courtesy of Jack Kienast About 100 people attended the Ninth Annual William Stafford Birthday Poetry Reading on Jan. 26 ...