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The Irrepressible Freshness of Robert Frost
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRobert Frost. (Picture via Getty Images) When readers think of modernist poetry, chances are that T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece “The Waste Land” comes to...
Michael Alexander, poet and broadcaster whose Anglo-Saxon translations were used in Kenneth Clark’s...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMichael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose...
Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy...
Saved from the bin: the secrets of Austen, Beckett and Larkin’s scribbled first drafts
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOne of Europe’s oldest libraries, the Bodleian in Oxford is famous for its manuscripts. While some...
What was it like to dive into the poetry pool? My time as guest editor of Poetry Magazine
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCHICAGO -- What is a poet? This is a question that I have been asking most of my life, since...
Poet and playwright Bernard Kops dies aged 97
Press Association News via AOL· 2 months agoPoet and playwright Bernard Kops has died “peacefully” surrounded by his loved ones at the age of 97, his family has announced. Throughout his career, he...
Percival Everett Is Messing With You
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPercival Everett is a compulsive problem solver who doesn’t care much whether he ultimately arrives at a solution. As he told Paris Review seven years...
A Spy Among Friends review: An elegant Cold War thriller
The AV Club via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe title for A Spy Among Friends, last year’s British thriller that makes its MGM+ premiere on...
With this Christmas classic, the audiobook was born
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSometimes it's the afterthought — not the thought — that counts. The Gettysburg Address? A two-minute addendum, by Lincoln, to someone else's lengthy...
Bernard Kops, ‘barrow-boy’ playwright whose work illuminated the Jewish experience in Britain –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBernard Kops, who has died aged 97, was an East End-born playwright, poet and novelist whose first...