This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as The Mysterious Origins of the World’s Most Famous Christmas Poem.

To mark World Poetry Day, we’ve collected the stories behind six poems beloved throughout the world and which are well worth investigating for yourself. “You may write me down in history ...

The world is too big to be thinking about you. You must not expect anything from it, dear. You thought this was a lie; it ...

His many poems have been different from one another and yet alike. They are the work of a man who has never stopped exploring himself--or, if you like, America, or better yet, the world.

The show, she said, is about “the poems that accompany us through this ... “the Indiana Jones of the plant-hunting world”. He hotfooted from the jungle to a BBC studio for Start the Week ...