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 ...

Anyone who needs a good laugh right now will enjoy this collection of stories in poem form and will want to check out other works by Kenney. “Love Poems for Anxious People” is published by G.P. Putnam ...

TS Eliot’s life and influences are meticulously investigated in this impressive account of artistic creation A century ago, a man with a double life published one of the most celebrated, anthologised ...

It’s not Auden’s best poem or (since “Funeral Blues” appeared in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral) his most famous. It’s not even one he cared for: “The most dishonest poem I have ever written” he ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1922, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca was involved in the organisation and promotion of a music festival designed to celebrate Gypsy music, and to draw cultural attention to the “authentic” ...

In the winter of 1949, a group of judges — including poets T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell — met to decide the winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize for the best book of poetry published in the ...