WE have been so long accustomed to think of Dante chiefly as the poet of The Divine Comedy, and of Shakespeare chiefly as the dramatist of the Plays, that we do not always remember that they are also ...

I tried to be unjaded about Paul McCartney's new book of poems. Although I'm not a huge fan of his music, Sir Paul has written some great lyrics, like Penny Lane or Eleanor Rigby. So, although writing ...

Nathaniel Mackey is a major force in contemporary poetryinternationally, yes, but particularly in the Triangle. Ask his students, who follow his lead to mix poetry and criticism in a way that makes ...

—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

The poet Andrew Weatherhead once tweeted, “The best way to read a poem is to pretend each line is the name of a horse; so the poem is just a list of horses.” This joke says something serious about ...

The Belfast cultural institution began life in 1951, when the indomitable Mary O’Malley formed Lyric Players Theatre ...

18mo. Decorated Cloth, Gilt Top. The Prelude to Poetry, the English Poets in the Defense and Praise of their own Art. The Lyric Poems of Robert Burns. The Lyric Poems of Edmund Spenser. The Lyrical ...