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 ...

No literary pilgrimage to Massachusetts can be complete without a visit to the Amherst home of one of the most important ...

he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that showed what it felt like to be a Black man in Shreveport during the late 1800s and early- to mid-1900s. Comedian Kevin Hart ...

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 ...