Smithsonian Magazine7d
When This Brilliant Author Died, She Left Behind a Legacy of Grief, Haunting Poetry and Surprising Resilience
Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...
20 Famous Poems Everyone Needs to Read at Least Once
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson ... As one of America's most well-regarded poets, Emily Dickinson has ...
BBC6y
The remarkable lives and deaths of seven famous poets
By exploring the lives, opinions and deaths of a variety of famous poets, the book builds up a ... Dylan Thomas famously drank himself to death with 18 straight whiskies. But there were many ...
The Conversation25d
The Holocaust poets who can help us to understand genocides past and present
I believe that reading poetry is an important way to ... having written some of the most memorable poems about the Holocaust, including Death-Fugue (1948), which described the repetitive and ...
Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...
The Irish News26d
Michael Longley remembered as ‘one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced’ following death aged 85
Best known for poems including The Ice-Cream Man and arguably his most famous ... Poetry in 2001 and the Wilfred Owen Award in 2003. A close friend of poet Seamus Heaney, following his death ...