Why Goethe matters
It is difficult to think of any area of modern life which is not anticipated in Faust
It is difficult to think of any area of modern life which is not anticipated in Faust
This bizarre story would teeter on the incredible if it weren’t wholly true
Our writers weigh in
The author was criticized for his revealing memoir about his late wife
His letters are a deeply moving supplement to his poems
A century ago, W.B. Yeats won the Nobel Prize. It was the start of a remarkable late era for the Irish poet
Amanda Gorman’s poem got moved from the elementary-school section of a library to a middle-school one
Storm Swimmer is a collection both haunted and nurtured by waters
A century after its first publication, the poem still defies easy categorization
When he wasn’t obsessing over pornography, he could be truly insightful and touching
The British could learn something from these impressive missionaries of literature
Why are we so content to minimize and forget the work of translators?
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón and My Grief, The Sun by Sanna Wani reviewed
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller reviewed
Eliot lingered in Dylan’s consciousness as he sought to answer the question “what is it?”
He is one of those poets who is profound without sounding so
His latest collection shows the limits of confessional poems
He’s being attacked as a colonialist but his work was far more complex and erotic than that
The poet loved collecting bric-a-brac from around the world for a reason
E-commerce is great for readers, but there’s no wrong way to buy books