Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller’s “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.” By Robert Pinsky When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Critic Miller (The Brontë Myth) considers the life of English poet John Keats (1795–1821) via nine of his poems in this detailed and original study. Melding biography, close reading, and personal ...

Part of the reason A.E. Housman (1859–1936) holds a high and immovable place for those who read and write formal poetry is that — as the Sun pointed out in March, when the Poem of the Day column ...

to fill the sky with wreckage. We clutch our skin, reach for hope from our ankles, We close our eyes, pray for water, pray for answers, We keep our fear in a silent place — we run. There was a flash ...

and bullies at gas stations cracking their knuckles. And now, now that every trigger finger is itchy, you’re going out like an exorcised Liberace. Hectic, comedic, toxic, alone, a flaming meringue on ...