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

An old, old, old, old, old (key word is old here), old flame of mine from my freshman year of high school recently sent me this poem: ...

Friendship, a covenant, romance—no matter what you call it, David’s love for Jonathan is one of the Bible’s most beautiful ...

She was widely known for “her discretion and gentle nature”. “This was a simple quiet and normal family life of a woman, a mother and her family, that was destroyed,” she says. Siobhan is now talking ...

Nevertheless, tradition reveres him as the greatest king of Israel and Judah, the author of beautiful poetry and the father of King Solomon, who is credited with the ultimate biblical love poem, the ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and ...

Becky and Benny were childhood sweethearts who went their separate ways in college. Now, she is his wife and caretaker as he ...

Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...

If you're looking to get into the music of Leonard Cohen, these ten songs are the perfect place to start with his lengthy and influential discography.

That includes the effects war and love, as well as meditations ... camp in Damascus to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother, Almadhoun's interest in poetry runs deep. “There is a section ...