Famous poets earn acclaim because their work is universal—they combine beautiful writing with deep thoughts, often incorporating imagery, symbolism, metaphor and, of course, creative use of ...

When Swift told us, on The Tortured Poets Department, that she was no Patti Smith, she meant that she wasn’t a groundbreaking ...

Whether it be through line breaks to emphasise certain words, repetitions or chiastic structures which work to build lyrical hypnosis, the literary techniques employed by world-famous poets needn’t be ...

Published in the print edition of the September 23, 1933, issue, with the headline “Lines To A World-Famous Poet Who Failed To Complete A World-Famous Poem, Or Come Clean, Mr. Guest!.” ...

A MYSTERIOUS deformed body found inside a coffin underneath Notre-Dame has finally been revealed to be a famous Frenchman. A ...

Archaeological excavations at Notre-Dame de Paris have uncovered a burial site that could be that of the French poet Joachim ...

There is a crisis which has rewritten the narrative of what it means to be a poet in Uganda and repurposed it as a sort of ...

By exploring the lives, opinions and deaths of a variety of famous poets, the book builds up a picture of what it is that makes poets want to write in the first place. Here are seven facts about ...

Reputations are made and rewards distributed within the poetry subculture. To adapt Russell Jacoby's definition of contemporary academic renown from The Last Intellectuals, a "famous" poet now ...

Theodore Roethke, one of the greatest American poets of the 20th Century, will be honored at an event at Bloedel Reserve on ...

Poets should become athletes ... As fate would have it, these plans were interrupted by the recurrence of another famous ...