What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Wilfred Owen wrote the first draft of his most famous work in the autumn of 1917 while recovering from shell-shock in a Scottish hospital. Completed in 1918, the poem includes horrific ...

Alongside Dylan Thomas and WS Graham, both lovers of hers, she was one of the most original poets among the 1940s “New ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Emily Dickinson needs no introduction—she’s one of the most famous poets in the English-speaking world—but perhaps this poem does. “One Day Is There of the Series” sees her writing about ...

This poem embodies that sort of intense, fleeting crush you get on someone that feels as though you know them from a past life. You know nothing about them, only what you imagine them to be like.

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.