Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller’s “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.” By Robert Pinsky When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) was a Scottish poet who towards the end of his life suffered from mental health problems and died in Edinburgh bedlam. Although his life was short his poems were published ...

Every now and then the internet trips over something so old it circles back to feeling brand new, and people stop scrolling.

A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson. By Peter Conradi. Bloomsbury; 419 pages; $40 and £18.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk THE soldier-poets of the 1914-18 war require no ...

This is a poem by Robert Burns. It was written in 1786 and is read here by John Gordon Sinclair. This solemn meditation on the destruction of a poet through 'life's mad career' is the final poem of ...

The whole tragedy-turned-circus that led yesterday to the execution of Timothy McVeigh ended with a poem. Given the chance to make a final statement in life, McVeigh released a handwritten copy of ...

Source: 'Photo taken by Zoe Weil' Last week, I had the opportunity to experience the power of my epitaph. How is that possible given that I’m not dead yet? It happened because I deliberately wrote my ...

A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s finally cracked it.