A new exhibition at the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections sheds light on an often-overlooked Harlem Renaissance poet in UVA’s backyard. The exhibition, titled “Anne ...

Here is a characteristic sentence from David Norbrook’s introduction to “The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse,” published in 1992: Like More, Wyatt found it impossible to find a public discourse ...

Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

Poetry is having a moment — not that the art form hasn't resonated through the centuries with work from greats including William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and others.

Professor of English Ramie Targoff teaches and studies Renaissance literature, with an emphasis on the relationship between literature and religion. She recently finished a book on the poetry and ...

Decades after female poets of the '60s and '70s gained attention and acclaim, feminist poetry is having a moment again -- particularly for women of color. The latest wave began to form before the last ...

Born April 19, 1931, in New Haven, Connecticut, Roche received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1953 and his Ph.D. in English from Princeton in 1958. He started as a research associate ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poetry is having a moment — not that the art form hasn't resonated through the centuries with work from greats including William ...