Part of the reason A.E. Housman (1859–1936) holds a high and immovable place for those who read and write formal poetry is that — as the Sun pointed out in March, when the Poem of the Day column ...

FITTING TRIBUTE. The poem: “Hypothetical Self-Epitaph”: “What if I just caved in, gave out, pulled over to the side of the road of life, expired like an old driver’s license? “You might say He didn’t ...

Critic Miller (The Brontë Myth) considers the life of English poet John Keats (1795–1821) via nine of his poems in this detailed and original study. Melding biography, close reading, and personal ...

It’s said that Alfred Nobel made the decision to establish his famous prize after his brother died in France and a French newspaper, mistakenly believing it was him, published the epitaph: “The ...

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 ...

This article comes from Den of Geek UK. You know how some buildings have secret thirteenth floors, closed off for reasons of superstition? Dollhouse has a secret 13th episode. On the 10th anniversary ...

The poet John Keats died, horribly, two hundred years ago this month, his lungs so ravaged by tuberculosis that the doctors in Rome who carried out the autopsy couldn't understand how he had breathed ...