A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...

The collection of works by the metaphysical poet is expected to be sold for between £200,000 and £300,000 A previously unknown 400-year-old manuscript of works by English poet John Donne has ...

Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den? 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.

Richard Flanagan is drowning. Trapped in a kayak, wedged underwater, he sips from a pocket of air inside the Franklin’s roar.

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

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[N]ever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague ...

2. Bring happiness to others. You are not an island, as the English poet John Donne observed, and working for your own happiness should be part of a bigger project to build a better world.

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include a debut by Dzifa Benson and an extraordinary posthumous collection from Gboyega ...

John Ashbery has received nearly every major writing award the literary world has to offer, and his work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Author of twenty poetry collections, ...

Tributes have been paid to the award-winning poet and novelist John Burnside, who has died at the age of 69. His publishers Jonathan Cape confirmed the Fife-born writer had died after a short illness.