Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how poetry can also be a consolation for that turmoil. No list of famous poems ...

The most famous of all Christmas poems ... asking for prayers for peace and an end to all war. American writer and poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) is best known for writing in the ...

Over the course of six short clips, Simon Armitage goes behind the scenes of some of his most famous poems. These clips are from the BBC series Simon Armitage: Writing Poems. Suitable for ...