In the late 1800s, the literary term poète maudit (literally ‘accursed poet’) was coined from the title of a collection of poetry by Paul Verlaine, in which he paid homage to himself and his ...

Passionate, astute, concentrated. The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86) have marked her out as one of the great American poets and she has been placed by the critic Harold Bloom as a key figure ...