The criticism to which her work comes nearest in scope and spirit is perhaps to be found among Mr. Dowden’s studies, where some of the same questions are discussed, particularly in regard to the ...

Poets in closer focus: Pound, H.D., Loy, Stevens, Crane, Hughes, Rukeyser, Olson, Ginsberg, Plath, and O’Hara. Assignments will include critical essays, creative responses, and presentations. Selects ...

Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971-2001 By Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 452 pages, $30 Seamus Heaney’s 1995 Nobel Prize consolidated his place among the most revered English ...

In “Poetry Slam, or, The Decline of American Verse,” Mark Edmundson, an English professor at the University of Virginia, ... Why is modern poetry so bad? June 20, 2013.

THREE vices of contemporary poetry (all with certain strong exceptions in his favor) appear in D. H. Lawrence’sLast Poems (Viking Press, $3.00): the dissolution of metric, the mawkish saturation ...

In honor of the poet most and yet somehow least imitable in modern English poetry, the Sun is presenting a week of Yeats. And to start, we have “The Stolen Child,” a mostly trimeter four-stanza 1886 ...

Few poets in human history have inspired such lasting devotion as Sappho. ... Carson’s translation is imbued with the sensibilities of modern English poetry.