English poet William Blake (1757 – 1827) was largely unknown in his lifetime, forging a meager living as an engraver and self-publishing his visionary poetry to near universal indifference. When he was given notice at all, it was often only to dismiss...
I should say I wanted to write poetry in the beginning because I had fallen in love with words…what the words stood for, symbolised, or meant, was of very secondary importance; what mattered was the sound of them…. These words, which Dylan...
The first World War produced such an abundance of truly great English poetry that it birthed an entirely new literary genre, which came to be known, somewhat prosaically, as “war poetry.” War poetry was distinguished not only by its unflinching...
James Shapiro
Ron Chernow
Rick Perlstein
Simon Critchley
Martin Sherwin & Kai Bird
