What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Lines from Mambazham by Vyloppilli Sreedhara MenonThe simple, yet powerful image in Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon’s pensive poem ...

Wilfred Owen wrote the first draft of his most famous work in the autumn of 1917 while recovering from shell-shock in a Scottish hospital. Completed in 1918, the poem includes horrific ...

The poem is about the loss of a beloved friend ... speech without realising they’re actually quoting one of the most famous British writers. Image caption, Two roads diverged in a wood, and ...

The simple, yet powerful image in Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon’s pensive poem Mambazham (1936) of a mother offering a mango to her son, where he had been buried, months after she had reprimanded ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the ... of places (including Coca-Cola’s famous adverts), and among them in this famous ...

Shadwell’s poetry expresses his wit and occasional bawdiness. His poem Love In Their Little Veins Inspires is about the seasonal nature of love in birds. Nicholas Rowe was a popular figure in ...