By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

In Ali Smith's latest novel, "Gliff," a brother and sister befriend a horse in a dystopian future. NPR's Scott Simon explores the issue of authoritarianism with the novelist and playwright.

Thus Gordon believes that Charlotte’s well-known submissive reply to the poet Southey, who told her that ‘literature could not be the business of a woman’s life’, was actually an exercise in ...

Claire Harman opens her biography, written in time for Charlotte Brontë ... was haunting her own life. Brontë is described scaring her fellow schoolgirls with ghost stories, but then later, rejected ...

You do not need to stay awake after a concussion. Back in the day, the only way doctors could assess brain function in a ...

The resilience of women and their power to effect change when they work together are two of the inspiring central themes of a ...

Take Shelley — what a mess he made of his life ... loving poetry and Fanny Brawne so intemperately that he pined and died of consumption at the age of twenty-six. Charlotte Brontë again ...

You don't have to wait until Valentine's Day to share these romantic sayings, from inspirational and deep love quotes to ...

The musician, who is deaf/hard of hearing, talks about her latest work, The Land Grows Weary of its Own, which has its Irish premiere this month ...