The year 1947, when Richard Wilbur, who died on Saturday, at ninety-six, published his first collection, also gave us Cleanth Brooks’s “The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry,” in ...

Throughout National Poetry Month, The Daily sat down with Slam Society members to hear what poetry means to them. Their poems touch on everything from gender to race to childhood memories, bringing ...

What is the ethical power of literature? Can it diminish acts of injuring, and if it can, what aspects of literature deserve the credit? Attempting to account for “the sweeping change in everyday ...

Revise for your GCSE English literature exam by listening to these podcasts from BBC Bitesize and Sounds. Join host Testament plus special guests to compare a range of selected poems, looking at ...

I’ve never quite bought the old witticism, attributed to the Irishman George Bernard Shaw, that Britain and the United States are “two nations divided by a common language.” But while there’s a ...