What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...

Angelou’s most memorable poems remain outstanding not just because of her mastery of the written word; they are impactful because she had an innate ability to fluidly translate some of her most ...

Check out these famous lines from poems you may not realise you knew. This is something you say when you’re having an informal get-together, and the meaning was the same in a famous poem.

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Emily Dickinson needs no introduction—she’s one of the most famous poets in the English-speaking world—but perhaps this poem does. “One Day Is There of the Series” sees her writing about ...

From heartbreak to hermaphroditic slugs, these extraordinary poetry collections are the perfect gifts for Christmas ...

Close to two centuries after his death, the mystical poetry of William Blake continues to be studied and cherished as one of the most distinctive voices in the English language. Born on 28 ...

When it comes to writing poetry, it seems that artificial intelligence (AI) triumphs over humans. AI chatbots can mimic ...

In a newly published study, participants had difficulty distinguishing AI-written poems from those written by famous human ...