In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

The woman protagonist in the poem listens to the mirror, described as male in its harsh assessment and critical judgment. Sylvia Plath’s mirror is a metaphor for the struggle between the true ...

Ted Hughes once suggested that his romance with Sylvia Plath dominated his university years, forthrightly beginning a poem with the line “Cambridge was our Courtship.” To assume Plath felt the same is ...

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Gurajada Appa Rao (1862–1915) was a prominent Indian playwright, poet, and social reformer, best known for his contributions to Telugu literature. Born in Rayavaram village in the ...

Faithfull’s final musical releases were works that incorporated Romantic poetry in different ways. She Walks in Beauty (2021) is a spoken-word album of canonical Romantic poetry by the likes of ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” on January 29, 1845, it catapulted both the work and its author to instant fame.

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

"Celebrating the beauty of Scotland, the power of nature, and the poetry of Robert Burns. Happy Burns Night," they captioned the Reel, which featured aerial footage of Scotland against lines from ...