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E.E. Cummings, or ee cummings, if you prefer -- he didn't care much either way from what I've read, was influenced early on by the Imagist|Imagists howe...

Lodore (1835), and  History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817). Who were Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s parents? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s father was William Godwin, a noted social philosopher, political journalist, and religious Dissenter, and her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, a writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. When was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley married? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 and ran off with him to France in July 1814. The couple were married in 1816 after his fi...

Remembering Anthony Thwaite New Statesman literary editor, who has died at the age of 90. The poet Anthony Thwaite – who was in his day a university lecturer, a radio producer and one of Philip Larkin’s  literary executors – has died at the age of 90 in a nursing home in his beloved Norfolk. He was the literary editor of this magazine, from 1967 until 1972, though film, theatre and music were also in his purview. The “back half” pages of the magazine under his tenure remain an excellent read: in one issue alone can be found pieces by  Graham Greene, Leonard Woolf and  Malcolm ...

John Wieners photographed in Detroit, Mich., in 1966. (Photo by Leni Sinclair / Getty Images) During the last three decades of his life, the poet John Wieners lived in a one-bedroom walkup at 44 Joy Street, on the back side of Boston’s Beacon Hill. By some accounts it was a drab, minimalist apartment, furnished with wicker patio chairs and decorated with Wieners’s own collages of travel brochures and movie magazines. The refrigerator was empty and unplugged. After he won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1986, grocery bags of champagne lined the walls—replaced, ...

Philip Larkin statue placed on secret racism review's list following Black Lives Matter protests  Poet cited on secret list of 'major statues of concern' by Hull City Council over comments made in his published letters 6 March 2021 • 5:00pm Poet Philip Larkin, who died in 1985, was honoured with a statue in Hull in 2010 Credit: Radio Times via Getty Images Poet Philip Larkin has been cited in a secret racism review carried out by a council after officials admitted they could not be seen to be doing "nothing" in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests. Emails seen by The Telegraph shared am...