Part of the reason A.E. Housman (1859–1936) holds a high and immovable place for those who read and write formal poetry is that — as the Sun pointed out in March, when the Poem of the Day column ...

The nine gunmen who blazed away at each other in 1881 have been trotted out to the vicinity of the O.K. Corral so many times it’s a wonder there’s any literary life left in them. In the hands of Mary ...

Hamlet teaches much. The play taught me that the dead depend upon the living to tell their story. The dead, after all, first linger in our thoughts and prayers and then disappear inside old photograph ...

The whole tragedy-turned-circus that led yesterday to the execution of Timothy McVeigh ended with a poem. Given the chance to make a final statement in life, McVeigh released a handwritten copy of ...

Critic Miller (The Brontë Myth) considers the life of English poet John Keats (1795–1821) via nine of his poems in this detailed and original study. Melding biography, close reading, and personal ...