We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...
T oday The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),” a new editorial project that brings ...
On World Poetry Day, actor Siddhant Chaturvedi recalls writing his first poem at 15. It was his own version of Daffodils by ...
The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read ...
LIMBONG: Why do you think he published that poem and not "Nothing New"? PARINI: Well, he went on to write a sequence of wonderful, short, aphoristic poems in from about 1917 till 1923. I mean ...
LIMBONG: But sometimes things don't live up to their name at all, because Robert Frost has a poem called "Nothing New," and it is, in fact, new - to us, at least. It was originally written in 1918 but ...