From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The greatest poetry books ever written I remember the first time I ...

Discover the greatest poets of all time, whose timeless works have shaped literature and continue to inspire readers. Learn the legacy of these famous poets.

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. National Poetry Month is here! We’ll be celebrating and sharing all things verse throughout April with poets from across ...

1914 was a bad year for politics but a great year for poetry: you could argue that it was the year that Modernism hit its stride. 2014 was pretty great, too. These are the books that I predict ...

Great Christian Poems Teach Priceless Lessons About Life I hope to live the life of virtue that great poetry inspires Raffaelo Sorbi, “Dante Meets Beatrice,” 1903 (photo: Public Domain) ...

The one great war poem of the world—the Iliad—took the form in which it lives in the memory of nations of many differing tongues long after the events it describes.

The great poets are very unlikely to endorse prevailing power. If you were an English poet in the First World War the pressure was for you to contribute to the war effort by dehumanizing the face ...