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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean ...

While poetry might seem like the realm of intellectuals, this literary domain is vast, encompassing everything from the love poems we send our sweethearts on Valentine's Day to the funeral poems ...

Relaunched in 2010 under the editorship of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Paul Muldoon, edited from 2013 to 2023 by the poet and MacArthur fellow Susan Stewart, and now edited by the acclaimed poet Rowan ...

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Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

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.