It took around two years for Burns to complete the poem. In a letter to Robert Cleghorn ... but something came in my way so that the design of an Elegy to his memory gave up.

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not ...

If there was anything Shakespeare could do well, it was to write immortal literature, and this lesser-known poem is one example. Shakespeare used allegory and elegy to describe complex themes ...

Bereavement is the main theme of Khansa’s poetry, especially the grief that arose from the death of her brother Sakhr. It is ...

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How did Latin erotic elegy influence and shape sixteenth-century English love poetry? Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book offers detailed readings of poetry with close attention to the ...

We look today at the companion piece to our selection for 9th December, another poem about the farmer Bard's pet sheep.

Orpheus and Eurydice, that famous live-dead couple, also get poems in After Image. There are many intense bursts of emotion ...

Despite being perhaps the most famous animal elegy ever written ... made it his mission to track down the pen behind the poem ...

Silas House, a writer from Kentucky, said he’s always seen Hillbilly Elegy as Vance’s political launch pad. We can see now that it clearly was.’ ...