The most famous of poems about the fall is probably still Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73”—the poem with the line “Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” It appeared last week as The New York ...

Across centuries and continents, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror of human experience: a time when beauty and decay, ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and ...

As autumn sleds into winter, winners of the Cape Cod Times Poetry Contest all contain a sense of departure ― even a touch of melancholy: Leaves die in fiery splendor, edged in golden sunlight. Poet ...

The day began at 5.45am with a reading of Edward Thomas’s poem in Farming Today. Thomas started writing poetry shortly before he became a soldier in the First World War. He wrote Digging on 4th April ...

For Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the road that began at age twenty led inexorably to the consolations of wombats, whiskey, chloral, and the culmination of the grave. From our vantage point, this poem falls ...