William Wordsworth, the Lake Poet famed for celebrating nature's beauty in verse, transformed English Romanticism. Today's ...

The story never reveals the nasty rumor about P., and this is just one of several bits of withheld information in the story. Disclosure, or its lack, both shapes the story and is the subject of this ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

I was trying to get down to the root where consciousness springs up under pressure from conflict and pain and power.” ...

Breakout poet and mom Jessica Urlichs talks her new book and wows with her nuanced take on motherhood. Don't miss our ...

The Russian filmmaker discusses his biopic on the Russian poet, the nature of dissidents, and the heightened poetics of his ...

A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism Down on the canal on Christmas Day Down on the canal on Christmas Day a man walks towards ...

Fiona Benson’s Midden Witch is a ferocious and frightening book that illuminates those women – often healers, artists – termed ‘witch’. In Benson’s poems a gentle spirit somehow coexists with an ...

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Of Flanders and France in a storm of pains. To the mellifluous voice of a far-off song, They have gone on a journey of ages long. They have left behind their earthly name, And their earthly body, to ...

A single missing word in the 1902 poem sparks a deeper look at rhythm, dialect and longing Sea-Fever I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a ...

Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado's renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago's "It's OK to Ask ...