An early poem from D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930), which appeared in his 1916 collection “Amores,” “The Enkindled Spring” shows the young writer emerging from something like a traditional Georgian poet ...

It was a hundred years ago — and so, in time, even the most modern of modern writers become the distant past — that William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) opened a 1923 collection of poetry and prose ...

Springtime is the season of renewal, but it can also be a season of ambivalence. After all, for something to be made new and fresh, it first has to have gotten old and worn. Perhaps this is why some ...

Claire Cameron is a novelist and essayist whose books include The Bear and The Last Neanderthal. This piece was assembled using more than 40 Canadian newspaper stories about spring that were published ...

It’s January, January 21 to be precise, and I’ve stepped out onto the back porch to deposit the trash from the house in the can to wait for the deposit onto the truck to take it away, no muss no fuss ...

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Abdur Rehman Rahi was a Kashmir poet, translator, and critic. As one of the foremost exponents of Kashmiri literature, he authored a dozen books and translations. He was also awarded with the ...

It is generally perceived that literature is meant to depict and narrate the human world which itself is a ‘construct’ of human intellect and emotions. Though this notion is not altogether wrong, it ...

Ian McMillan is joined by Paul Farley, Caleb Femi and Penelope Lively to consider poetry, ambivalence and beauty, with the arrival of spring. Show more As a new season arrives, Ian McMillan and guests ...

In springtime, some people grow misty-eyed with allergies to pollen. The poet Lynne McMahon greets the season gladly, but with the recognition of the hay fever sufferer's fate at this coming time of ...