If our life as members of society ... Professor Theodore Spencer of Harvard has shown how the greatest of English poets reduced to poetic order and made recognizable the common experience of ...

sees Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley explore the myth of the doomed poet. By exploring the lives, opinions and deaths of a variety of famous poets, the book builds up a picture of what it ...

But in that moment someone else was born – one of the most famous female poets and enduring feminist icons of our time. Plath’s suicide was not the first time she had tried to end her life.

Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here. And, so began a tradition of burials and memorials ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" — marking a full year of weekly columns — is Lola Haskins, who lives in ...

The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...

who lives in Ashland, Missouri. Walter started reading poetry in eighth grade English class and started writing his own poems in high school. For 40 years, Walter has written a poem each month ...

A white marble life size figure of poet William Wordsworth is now placed next to Shakespeare's memorial and below the bust of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The figure is ...