Articles

How did you become who you are?

How a poem brings language to loss and speaks to the dead.

What can we assume when we read a poem?

Beyond self-expression.

An escape leads a young poet to confront her impulses.

An Elizabethan plays a Modernist language game.

The child elegy and the 19th-century poet.

An intimate glimpse into one of the 20th century’s most fascinating marriages.

In Keats’s finest season, even the gnats are mourning.

The Chicago poet transports readers into a dream deferred.