Love, longing, and lament lend themselves well to poetry, as the Argives know well. Valentine’s Day is approaching, and there ...

Tennyson was prolific, prodigious. He rumbled with poetry; he recited it endlessly; it poured off him on long walks. Language ...

In 2005, at the age of 24, William Horsted had his first poem published, in The Spectator. He still has a copy of the ...

His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the ...

In addition to his books, both of verse and prose, he helped millions of students through “The Bedford Reader” and other ...

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for ...

Killer of Sheep' meets 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' in a surrealism-imbued cine-poem about a kid in LA's Watts neighborhood ...

London (AFP) -- A print of English poet William Blake's most famous poem "The Tyger" sold at auction for 228,600 pounds ($304,519) Wednesday, British auction house Christie's said. The "exceptionally ...

The Tyger comes from Blake’s rare First Edition illustrated poetry collection, Songs of Experience A rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem has come up for sale at Christie’s auction house, ...

For Maria Nemy Lou Rocio, a Filipino domestic helper who has been journaling since the age of six, writing has always been her refuge. “From best to worst, writing truly carried me through life,” she ...

A rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem is to go on auction where it is expected to fetch up to £120,000. The print comes from the rare first issue of Blake’s Songs Of Experience, from around ...