Nicolson argues convincingly that the fragmentary, fierce and strange poetry Wordsworth produced before Lyrical Ballads was composed on the cusp of madness. It was only by going to ground in England’s ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Nancy Willard knows snow. So many images are perfect in this poem. Before the snow, there’s always a silence, a stillness. The sky is pale as oatmeal. It’s “bearing up” before the snow ...

Robin Robertson, his long-standing editor at Jonathan Cape, said: “I knew and admired Michael Longley’s poetry before joining Secker & Warburg in the late 1980s, and so it was an honour to ...

I like to think that people who have read the same poems — my A may be your B — are friends of a kind, across any distance, before and after death. We are having trouble retrieving the article ...

Amna Nawaz spoke with Gorman about how the poem came to be and her new children’s book, “Girls on the Rise.” And before we go, we want to take some time for reflections about how people are ...

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He was the poet laureate this city never knew it had. We just never realized it because his iconic drawl so seamlessly blended into the background here: whether it was hearing him give the weather ...

Frost recites “The Gift Outright”, a far better poem. His white hair flutters like a flag in the rising wind. His voice rings strong and clear, staking a claim: “The land was ours before we ...