LONDONLONDON — A book that argues Elizabethan poet John Donne should rank alongside William Shakespeare as a literary genius has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book award British writer Katherine ...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the birth in Leningrad of poet Joseph Brodsky. In 1981, I interviewed Brodsky in London on the occasion of another anniversary -- 350 years since the death of poet ...

Death mark of the poet John Donne, engraved by Martin Droeshout, London 1632. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty) During the 16th century, the English were unusually spirited in their destruction of Catholics ...

"I Am a Little World Made Cunningly (Holy Sonnet V)" was published in the 1635 edition of John Donne's work "Poems." John Donne was born on Jan. 22, 1572, in London. He is known as a major ...

Why do we humans make and listen to poetry? “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” — everything in it is worthy of our attention. A poet fixes our gaze on some God-created being or experience ...

This image released by FSg shows book cover art for "Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne" by Katherine Rundell, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. (FSG via AP) 31,136 people played the ...

Read full article: Sea breeze returns this week, bringing higher rain chances to Central Florida Lady Luck, a 324-foot tanker formerly named Newtown Creek, being towed from NYC to a South Florida ...