Why is the greatest Polish poet one whose poems you’re least ... equivalent of Jan and Urszula Kochanowska in the English literary tradition? Finding that person in the history of English literature ...

Poetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise, unsettle, shock, console, and move. The Cambridge History of English Poetry offers sparklingly fresh and ...

Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here. And, so began a tradition of burials and memorials ...

Acclaimed American poet and Nobel laureate in literature Louise Glück has died ... Her poems often spoke of trauma and disillusion, with her most famous poem, "Mock Orange", questioning the ...