Or perhaps you're just taking your first steps into the world of poetry, so none of these ring a bell. That's OK. The beauty of poetry is its universal appeal—the most famous poems ever written ...

The world of poetry is wide—you can dig in to ... “The Road Not Taken” is a famous poem for good reason: Robert Frost offers ...

I promise you that I will make the case below for why poetry is the best genre to start your writing career with ... It might ...

I’ve spent the past few days in alternating states of shock, numb acceptance, anger, grief, and, above all else, exhaustion.

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

below are 16 of Poe’s most famous works, ranked by their impact on public perception, complexity, critical acclaim and popularity. This is one of Poe’s most well-rounded poems, one that ...

This first book-length translation into English of her... Luís de Camões is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusíads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry ...

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Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War. They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by ...

An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” David Orr is the ...

It presents a worked-up example of Simone Weil’s aphorism about “the connections we cannot make.” If poems do not change the outside world, they do, as Williams puts it, “change the landscape of ...

The poems also hint that a baby is on the horizon, and McClure tries to envision how to safely bring a child into such a fallen world, where “at best, I can do an interpretation of justice/ And hope ...