John Milton (1608-1674), regarded as one of the greatest English poets, thought by some to rival Shakespeare, was a late…
Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, William Butler (W. B.) Yeats (1865–1939), is considered to this day as one of the…
Reading the private correspondence of a famous person can be reassuring (“I just knew she was like that in her real…
Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, William Butler (W. B.) Yeats (1865–1939), is considered to this day as one of the greatest…
1. William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) was born on June 13, 1865, in Dublin, Ireland. His mother, Susan, who…
Helen Vendler is one of the most important literary critics in recent decades. This latest offering, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and…
Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, William Butler (W. B.) Yeats (1865–1939), is considered to this day as one of the…
1. One of America’s most important modernist poets, Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S. Eliot) (1888–1965) was distantly related to three former…
Visitors to Emily Dickinson’s family home in Amherst, Massachusetts—known familiarly as “The Homestead”—can still walk through the same gardens, kitchen,…
At first glance, a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist and American-born poet stand as far apart as science and literature usually do.…