Bruce Dickinson emerges as the unlikely hero in the fight to save William Blake’s home
A little-known seaside village is set to become a place of pilgrimage for devotees of the poet who penned Jerusalem
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A little-known seaside village is set to become a place of pilgrimage for devotees of the poet who penned Jerusalem
Petrarch, who died 650 years ago, is in danger of neglect. But anyone who has ever been in love should read his sonnets
When poet and novelist Kit Fan received a cautionary phone call, he made the heartbreaking decision to sever ties to his homeland
Marlowe was visionary, clever and had a humanity that could cut you to the quick. It’s time he stepped out from his contemporary’s shadow
The 200-year-old organisation faces controversy over previous intentions of allowing public nomination to become less ‘elitist’
The pop star poet on recording with Jimi Hendrix, the verse that Larkin ‘nicked’ – and why public readings ‘aren’t my idea of fun’
Burnside’s memoirs recall his drunken father throwing his sister down the stairs and burning his teddy bear, yet his poems were lyrical
In one of his final interviews, published last November, the Scottish writer – who has died aged 69 – talked of his harsh upbringing
Mediaeval poet placed the Prophet Mohammed in hell in The Divine Comedy
Juraj Cintula, a 71-year-old poet from town of Levice, posted online rants against Slovakian PM before opening fire
Chesterton shares some common ground with Kipling – not least the fact that both writers now seem like strangers to our shores
Being a bard ain’t easy... Paul Muldoon, Luke Kennard and other award-winning writers on the star’s album, The Department of Tortured Poets
Letter penned by society lady tells of depraved contents of poet’s writings that were later destroyed
200 years after his death some sneer at the warrior-poet – but Athenians worship him as a national treasure
Author’s reissued classic works latest to be slapped with cautionary notes after Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl and Agatha Christie
150 years after his birth, Frost’s poetry has brought comfort to millions. But have we all been missing its true meaning?
There will be more time to enjoy the spring spectacle thanks to the warm start to the season, says the National Trust
Larkin was an influence and friend but they were poles apart politically and Brownjohn contributed to an anthology for Jeremy Corbyn
Composed in the teeth of the Blitz, TS Eliot’s magnificent Four Quartets are proof of the power of faith in the darkest times
Christopher Childers has spent 10 years on The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse – and his translations sing from the page
The author overcame an unhappy childhood at boarding school – and went on to write his Booker-winning bestseller
New 3D image of poet shows he had less pronounced chin and an aquiline nose, but without the downwards point previously depicted
From Raymond Chandler's slippery similes to a scene Austen hid, a new exhibition reveals great writers' early drafts and discarded ideas