Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January 1939, the month of his death at age 73. In this apocalyptic depiction of ...

Phenomenon of death adds poetry and profundity to the symphony of life. Imagine a garden without autumn, where flowers never fade, fruits never ripen, and leaves never fall - a static, lifeless ...

Belfast-born writer Michael Longley has been remembered as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced” following his death aged 85. Tributes have been paid to the poet, described as ...

4 Extra Debut. Jonathan Bate turns to John Betjeman and his poem on the Death of King George V. From 2007. Show more **** This programme was suggested by Shenyou Me as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra ...

tried to be sensitive to their feelings by avoiding using the word “death.” Carter, as he did on many subjects, wrote a poem about this. He titled it: "Committee of Scholars Describe the ...

In “Colors: Stories and Poems in Different Shades,” the latest volume by Sam Lucy, the author opens a window onto his view of ...