Edmund Gosse, The Life and Letters of John Donne (1899) Donne is the most inharmonious of our versifiers, if he can be said to have deserved such a name by lines too rugged to seem metre. Of his ...

Unlike his contemporaries, John Donne was not a writer of good lines to be quoted from context long after the poems themselves are forgotten. What Donne created was a body of whole poems, conceived ...

Praises of John Donne the metaphysical poet—most distinguished member of a school numbering George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne—have ...

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October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...

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 ...

Lewton, who oversaw the RKO horror unit that churned out a series of esoteric, visually stunning, and sometimes ...

Lyric poetry refers to a short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker’s personal emotions and feelings. Historically intended to be sung and accompany musical instrumentation, ...

“My wife writes in the morning; I write at night. I prefer the peace and quiet of low light. But right now as I write this, I watch news of the world going to war. Peaceful weather is no more as ...

Though it doesn’t directly reference ancient Greece or its myths, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is a timeless Romantic poem rooted in classical antiquity. John Keats, a leading figure of British Romanticism, ...