An exploration of what constitutes the literary arts – plus all the ‘troubled hearts’ and demons that accompany it – through the lens of Shakespeare’s Hamlet ...

Authors are sometimes best known for a work that is not typical of their writing, and today’s Poem of the Day may be an example. “The Destruction of Sennacherib” is — or at least used to be, back when ...

The last unites all the others, for each element manifests in our life through what we reveal. Air (also representing the ...

Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834) was widely known in literary society — and yet nearly unpublished in her lifetime. The daughter and heiress of a courtier in the household of King George III, she ...

It's one of those poems people reach for in times when it feels like the sky is falling. It's also generally regarded as one of the great poems of the 20th century. "September 1, 1939," as its title ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Dove takes a fresh look at the cannon of 20th-century American poetry in this hefty anthology. Dove by no means seeks to include an example of every kind of poem written ...