Returning to England from Belfast, where I taught for a time, I frequently footstepped the Quantock Hills in Somerset, from Wills Neck to West Quantoxhead, following the stream in Holford Combe before ...

Rosamond Johnson’s setting of a poem by his brother ... Following a staid performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A minor for orchestra, a loud “Yeah!” was heard before ...

In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity ... phrases in Black literature – “I know ...

As Donald Trump has gained fame and power, his rage at opponents and appetite for vengeance appear to have sharpened. A ...

From the malignant Iago to the murderous Clytemnestra, most literary figures feel personal passion. Trump’s anger seems more ...

Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...

His most well-known poems ... life is remembered and celebrated worldwide, with his work having inspired generations of Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

For we insomniacs are not living the waking life; we are seeking sleep ... from God—it was Wordsworth who wrote our first real poem about insomnia. It’s disarming in its narrator’s search ...

In honour of Black History Month — as you will notice on these pages… if you haven’t already — this Thursday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m ...

And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. There is no “actual” China ... habitat of what we now refer to reflexively as lyric poetry. In the end, however, the putative distance from Johnson to ...