Lady Godiva and Me

This poem, by John Hewitt,  should be better known, so as it's today of all days, I'd like to post it here.  For an Irishman in Co...

In T he Social Function of Poetry Eliot tried to negotiate the contradictions. There is an obvious tension in the essay between...

In the twentieth century, writers continued to make claims for poetry and poets, and despite their often hard-headed approach to t...

Does any of this really matter? Who cares what some disappointed aristocrat wrote to soothe his sense of career failure ...