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

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Don Gilet is back on our screens as DI Mervin Wilson in the brand new series of Death in Paradise, which sees the Londoner ready to leave Saint Marie and return to the UK when an intriguing case ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the anti-rape movement.

LONDON -- An elephant trampled a tourist on safari to death in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, officials said. In what park officials are calling a “tragic accident,” the tourist was charged and ...