Hughes takes on the mammoth task of poetry curation with a fantastic distillation of major works by poets ranging from Homer and Sappho to Donne and Milton, Plath and Angelou. The late, great Benjamin ...

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Whatever your poetry is, below you'll find some of the best poetry books to read now. Immerse yourself in dazzling collections from must-read modern poets, such as the award-winning Raymond Antrobus ...

The Greeks defend their ships from the Trojans in Alfred Churchill’s Story of Homer’s Iliad, 1911. A would-be burglar entered an apartment, saw a book on Homer’s Iliad, and made himself comfortable so ...

At center, a bearded figure in a red robe stands facing us, holding a sword in his left hand and a laurel wreath on his head. At either side of him are three robed figures that drift toward him, ...

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He burst onto the literary scene in 1938, some years before his peers, with the poems, verse play, and short story of In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1938). The reactions were all a poet could wish ...