Explore top Emily Dickinson poems that withstand the test of time. Admire her unique voice, vivid imagery, and profound themes through her best works of poetry.

As a festival in London celebrates the art of love poetry, Lucy Scholes discovers how writers around the world express emotions through verse.

Geoffrey Himes makes the case that eighth-century Chinese writer Tu Fu is the best poet you've never actually heard of.

As a festival in London celebrates the art of love poetry, Lucy Scholes discovers how writers around the world express emotions through verse.

In envisioning the United States as “the greatest poem,” Whitman links the essence of poetry, which is unity-within-diversity, to the essence of democracy.

As usual, The Best Poems is an odd collection. About fifty per cent of it is the blending of high-minded sentiment and low-rating technical capacity which adds up to complete mediocrity in poetry ...

David Lehman, who conceived the series in 1987, launched it in 1988 and has overseen it with a rotating list of guest editors ever since, made it clear that the decision to shutter the book series was ...

Rough winds may shake the darling buds of May, but not the enduring popularity of Shakespeare’s verse, as the Bard’s Sonnet 18 has been voted the greatest poem of all time.

Our greatest poemThe people do not always say things out loud, Nor write them down on paper. – Langston Hughes National Poetry Month just ended with the war unresolved in Iraq. In 2003, when ...