Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

He would have left London just as his book was appearing to vanish into his hated North. “A shilling life will give you all the facts,” wrote WH Auden in his poem “Who’s Who”.

Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she self-published in her early 40s. She wrote another poetry book in her early 50s, “The ...

Full-steam ahead! Whenever I feel overwhelmed by the real world I find poetry offers some desirable escapes. Kim Dower’s “What She Wants” was just the book I needed. She has split it into ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and ... then suspicion was warranted. In both his poetry and his personal life, Frost was a trickster, saying one thing and almost always meaning ...