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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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

As New York and Philadelphia became hubs for publishing in the United States, there was a need to sell more books to a ...

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.

Inspired by John Donne's poem, The Expiration reveals the bittersweet moments of a love's last breath. An evocative, inner journey of two secret lovers as they accept they must reluctantly part ...

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.