You don’t have to know how to spell to write poetry. You can be rather loose in your syntax as far as I am concerned. You don’t have to know how to punctuate at all. Poe has nothing but dashes in his ...

I HAVE seen it stated that, when Tennyson’s Princess was published in the United States, two generations ago, it was the best-selling book in the country, and that Patmore’s The Angel in the House, ...

Seamus Heaney’s 1995 Nobel Prize consolidated his place among the most revered English-language poets in the world. Cited by the Nobel committee “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which ...