In Daily Beast, Michael Weiss writes about Auden’s political poems and why the poet renounced them: “As early as 1941, the poet had come to renounce some of his most celebrated work from the ...

Once, poetry was ink spilling spontaneously and consciously onto parchment, then wrapped in the folds of intimacy, passed ...

Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo ... amounts to perhaps the purest expression in verse both of Shelley’s political indignation and his belief that, with the ...

‘Goblin Market’ was the title poem of Christina Rossetti’s first collection, published in 1862, and while she disclaimed any allegorical purpose in it, modern readers have found it hard to resist ...

This collection gathers poems, from the eve of the twenty-first century to the month following Trump’s election, to mark a moment of political rupture, summoning the languages of resistance and memory ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee is best known for his novels and screenplays, but a new volume from The Works of ...

If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.

In a contextual way, the simmering, inventive, and significant poems in Jeet Thayil’s latest poetry collection I’ll Have It ...