Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and ...

At a time when most modern poets are writing in free verse, A. E. Stallings’ work is distinct. She is arguably one of the finest formalist poets working today. Over the last quarter century, she has ...

LP Hartley’s The Go-Between is replete with biblical, cultural, and literary allusions. Nowhere in the novel is the power of a well-executed allusion clearer than when the protagonist falls foul of an ...

I first met the poet Rachel Wetzsteon at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 1994. She seemed lively, chatty, and yet, by the second day of the conference, already somewhat isolated, sitting in a ...

Allusion to the Poets by Christopher Ricks 345pp, Oxford, £20 Many professors of English, who were once compelled to study Paradise Lost, The Dunciad and In Memoriam, not to mention Practical ...