Two kinds of genius may escort you throughout life. True Goodness falls on him who lets them lead as one. Beauty enlivens and makes brief...

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” —Robert Frost To many in America, Robert Frost is the grandfatherly originator of “The...

"What I here propound is true: — therefore it cannot die: — or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again...

This is a poem I have known and loved for as long as I can remember. It has exerted a charm and fascination for me simply by virtue of...

Humanity has always had a story and it always will. Depending on our understanding of that story, individuals or humanity as a whole,...

So long have historians traced the beginnings of man, so long have they found the traces of art alongside him. The story of art can also...

Between 700 to 1700, and in particular during the Chinese Renaissance under the Song Dynasty (960-1279), China’s greatest contribution to...

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his...

It was out of an atmosphere of intensive study of the classics, impassioned dialogue with his collaborators on creative method, and a...

In 1688, John Dryden, England’s first official poet laureate, was deprived of that title for remaining Catholic and replaced with the...

The following article is an edited version of a conference presentation at La Chapelle en Vercors, Spring 2002. “We are ravished by the...

In the West, or at least in the Anglo-Saxon world, the idea of literary genius has fallen by the roadside in our postmodern civilization....

Amanda Gorman became something of a phenomenon, fêted as a celebrity from the moment she read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” amid the...

In the mid-1990s, a series of exposés featured on the London Independent and elsewhere brought a dark secret to light. Many were startled...

The year is 1797. Eight years after the beginning of the French Revolution, all hopes which had initially been placed in this uprising...

I remembers once leafing through a volume of Allen Ginsberg's poems and coming across one poem with the word “butterfly” in it and...

Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages...

Contemporary poetry is plagued by several characteristic vices: obscurity, banality, nihilism—each a topic for examination in its own...

The impact of Leonardo’s artwork on us today reproduces an effect which he himself experienced when looking at the opening of a dark...

Robert Frost’s talent radiates best from his shorter poems. His poetic voice, naturally laconic, finds its most expressive mode in his...