Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless quote, "If gold rusts, what then can iron do?" warns of moral decay when respected figures falter ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

William Wordsworth, a key figure of English Romanticism, believed the human mind's capacity for imagination and emotion far ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Irish author Anne Enright about her novel, "The Wren, The Wren." It's about a mother and daughter and how their lives are marked by the family patriarch, an Irish poet.

Best known as the “Bard of the Yukon,” Robert W Service transformed frontier adventure in Canada into hugely popular verse ...