Christopher Marlowe was as great a poet as Shakespeare. So why do we neglect him?
Marlowe was visionary, clever and had a humanity that could cut you to the quick. It’s time he stepped out from his contemporary’s shadow
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Marlowe was visionary, clever and had a humanity that could cut you to the quick. It’s time he stepped out from his contemporary’s shadow
Mediaeval poet placed the Prophet Mohammed in hell in The Divine Comedy
Juraj Cintula, a 71-year-old poet from town of Levice, posted online rants against Slovakian PM before opening fire
Chesterton shares some common ground with Kipling – not least the fact that both writers now seem like strangers to our shores
200 years after his death some sneer at the warrior-poet – but Athenians worship him as a national treasure
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150 years after his birth, Frost’s poetry has brought comfort to millions. But have we all been missing its true meaning?
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Larkin was an influence and friend but they were poles apart politically and Brownjohn contributed to an anthology for Jeremy Corbyn
Composed in the teeth of the Blitz, TS Eliot’s magnificent Four Quartets are proof of the power of faith in the darkest times
Christopher Childers has spent 10 years on The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse – and his translations sing from the page
The author overcame an unhappy childhood at boarding school – and went on to write his Booker-winning bestseller
New 3D image of poet shows he had less pronounced chin and an aquiline nose, but without the downwards point previously depicted
Unrecognised in his lifetime, Blake has finally achieved immortality – as a proto-rock star
The comedian on his Valentine's Day poetry collection, Carey Mulligan and being Alan Partridge’s 'Sidekick Simon'
‘There was a California quality in me that appealed to Carole. She started to let her hair down, literally and figuratively’
Andrew Stauffer’s rollicking biography Byron: A Life in Ten Letters tells the Romantic poet’s story through his own wild words
Fiercely intelligent but effortlessly readable, Anne Carson dances over the usual genre-divisions in her new book, Wrong Norma
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The 'bargain-basement Baudelaire' on going viral, why fame is a monster and facing his own mortality