William Cowper’s The Task, written in 1785, echoes today’s anxieties with eerie precision — war, oppression, the weight of the world. Can poetry offer solace in chaotic times? A journey through memory ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: ...

The vigor of their badness preserves them. Up they float into bad-poem limbo, where their bad lines, loose and weedlike, ...

Quotes about nature There’s a reason nature has inspired scores of poems, songs, and beautiful words—it’s pretty darn ...

Nikos Kazantzakis is for many the best Greek writer of the 20th century and his books have been translated more than his ...