There was also a performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony - conducted by Colin Davis - and an examination of Blake’s poem Tyger,Tyger. Other presenters over the years included Richard Baker and ...

A series of boyhood doodles engraved on copper plates by English poet and painter William Blake around 250 years ago have ...

Northern Irish pupils can choose to continue their English literature studies in their A Levels. Those who do will end up studying a wide range of books and plays - and plenty of poetry. A number of ...

The doodles were found using new, high-resolution scanning technology at the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford, to which the ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

In ‘Church Going’, the poem that gives this charming book its title, Philip Larkin talks about ‘one of the crew that tap and jot and know what rood-lofts were… Some ruin-bibber, randy for antique’.

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

THE SOCIETY OF POETS A poem by Sudha Mukhopadhyay. WORDSWORTH wandered lonely as a cloud,When all at once he saw a crowd, ...

While we're likely all familiar with quite possibly the most famous Halloween poem for kids — yes, I'm talking about the "trick or treat, smell my feet..." one — there are actually quite a few ...

Kamala Harris’ historic campaign, which launched with joy and once seemed destined for an inevitable victory, is now dogged ...

Though the name of the form may appear to be a contradiction, the prose poem essentially appears as prose, but reads like poetry. In the first issue of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, editor ...