“The poem cannot live until it has been willing to die,” Vernon Watkins declared in The Second Pressure on Poetry (Unicorn, X, Spring 1963, reproduced in The Prose of Vernon Watkins). In this week’s ...

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American poet born, like fellow American poet, four years her junior, T.S. Eliot, in St. Louis, MO. Unlike Eliot, she wrote traditional and formally structured lyrics, ...

Are stale with tears trodden underfoot. The heart’s flower withers at the root. Bury it then, in history’s sterile dust. The slow years shall tame your tawny lust. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) was a Welsh ...