The Ancient Greek poet Archias is an often overlooked voice of Hellenistic and early Roman-era Greek poetry, famous for his ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

Many of us are first introduced to the wonder of poetry through romantic poetry. Whether it comes in the form of bold self-love lessons taught by Maya Angelou, proud, wild desire shared by Sandra ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

The Rainbow is a famous poem by William Wordsworth. One of the UK's most famous poets, Wordsworth was born in 1770 in the Lake District. His parents died before he was 14-years-old, so Wordsworth and ...

Poetry Day is a celebration of poetry for everyone, everywhere. It’s a day when poetry takes to the streets. It’s a chance for you to use poetry to say things that can’t be said in prose. They mean an ...

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 - better known as 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' has been voted the greatest poem ever written. The best known of the Bard's 154 sonnets, it came top in a poll with ...

Library staff member Christie Cognevich will present “Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and the Victorian Interest in Psychology,” at 7 p.m. July 10, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W.