SEPTEMBER 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem. By Ian Sansom. Harper. 341 pages. $27.99. The subtitle for Ian Samson’s book “September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem,” is such an unexpected combination of ...

Everyone is anxious right now, and that seems like the perfect time for this humorous book, “Love Poems for Anxious People.” New York Times bestseller John Kenney brings his funny poetry back, this ...

Sitting in a bar on 52nd Street, WH Auden read in the “folded lie” of a newspaper about the accession of Danzig to the Third Reich. The poem he would write about the events of that night is the ...

Her poetry was acclaimed, but her take on her more famous contemporary caused controversy. By Neil Genzlinger Anne Stevenson, a prominent poet whose 1989 biography of an even more prominent poet, ...

This biography is of an epic poem written in blank verse and first published in London in July 1879. On its release, it immediately took England by storm, and soon thereafter America and Europe too ...