America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...

In A Little History of Poetry, renowned academic and expert on the subject John Carey puts it succinctly, “If music is sound organised in a particular way, poetry is a way of organising language ...

In A Little History of Poetry, renowned academic and expert on the subject John Carey puts it succinctly, “If music is sound organised in a particular way, poetry is a way of organising language ...

The rebuttal in the poem’s last line can be taken in a similarly literal spirit: Of course we don’t mean we love Keats that way. It’s the poems we adore, especially the one about succumbing ...

This mask was scanned and enlarged, with Jennings’ work featuring Keats’ face when he was 21-years-old. It will be mounted on a stone platform and a slate, with words from one of his odes ...

D el more Schwartz is a haunting reminder of the travails—or roller-coaster rides—of reputation. He burst onto the literary scene in 1938, some years before his peers, with the poems, verse play, and ...

The National Poetry Library is the largest public collection of modern poetry in the world. Since T.S. Eliot and Herbert Read opened it in 1953, it has moved homes several times to contain its ...

If “beauty is truth,” as the Romantic poet John Keats said, and "truth beauty,” a thing is beautiful if it is true to itself. 1 ...