By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...