William Hazlitt’s ... t commit the solecisms of too many modern journalists. Some of Hazlitt’s quotations will be pleasantly obscure to modern readers. In the essay on Jeffrey, he quotes the ...

It turns out famed Romantic poets like Byron, Keats and Coleridge ... Jane Porter’s Thaddeus of Warsaw as Evidence of Polish-British Relationships, which quotes Maciej Laskowski: There was the ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our ... remains the foremost representation of Romantic poetry written by friends and colleagues Coleridge and Wordsworth. Comprised of a series of ...

David L. Harrison Many classroom visits ago, a second-grade boy rose from his seat as I was introducing a poem and called out, “Don’t talk, just do the poems!” With that in mind I will keep ...

We know the woman is a street poet in the area. Her name is Etta Evans, and she's often seen in the Quarter with a typewriter.Marco Rasi took the picture. He said the umbrella first caught his eye ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” on January 29, 1845, it catapulted both the work and its author to instant fame.

The best-written poems capture emotions, experiences, or images using a lyrical language. But what exactly is a poem, how is it different from prose, and how should we approach it ...

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, will give a reading and talk at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center Jan. 16 as part of the Merwin Conservancy’s Green Room series.

Poet Connor Allen has spoken out about the attack on his mother that led to his arrest. The former Wales' children's laureate said he was grateful she called the police on him. Now 32, he ...

By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and ... or more properly looking at modernist poetry and understanding nothing, because I didn’t know what it would mean to understand ...