The poem also inspired an unlikely namesake: the Baltimore Ravens. The NFL football team’s name honors Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, died there and is buried there.

Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics ...

The words of late Peninsula writer Irene Adler will live on, thanks in part to the posthumous publication of a collection of ...

LIMBONG: But sometimes things don't live up to their name at all, because Robert Frost has a poem called "Nothing New," and it is, in fact, new - to us, at least.

So in the poem, the obstacle to their union is not a previous marriage but religious difference. For Dickinson, this is the internal quarrel that generates the most poetry.

The posts often use a clip of the song “Sweet Heat Lightning” by Gregory Alan Isakov. For Cecelia, writing the poem was a way for her to embody “my present self meeting back up with my past ...

"He looks battered, but is smiling, / like an old seaman, nearly at rest. / A gold-haired boy twirls upside-down on rings." These lines come from Alan Hollinghurst's poem Isherwood is at Santa ...