At the end of part 2 of ‘Shall We Allow Poets in the Republic’, we came upon the proposition that poets either must be ‘possessed and...

Locust Face down on the ground, hands by your sides, palms up, with all four limbs extended, lift your head, chest, arms and legs—a...

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

This is Part 2 to the series on Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn”. Part 1 can be found here. Chapter II: What is Poetry? The yearning for...

Over the glistening waves of distant seas Travels, swan-like, a humble bark. Along the waters an old soul as well Glides like a ship...

The color before the sun rises, due east, as the horizon is painted with streaks from heaven like a stained brush across the celestial...

So dark, so dark the willow forests loom, The skies are wintered and the evening hushed. Now neither shroud nor light nor vapors rise,...

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” is one of his shortest works, but also one of his best known, anthologized to the point of ubiquity....

When you have become to me as roses bloom, in memory, exquisite, each sharp thorn forgot, will I recall—yours made me bleed? When winter...