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Robert Frost was a famous American poet. He was born in 1874 in San Francisco and died in 1963 in Boston. He is famous for his work about the rural life in New England and his majestic descriptions. He received four Pulitzer prizes for poetry...

Edward Estlin Cummings is one of the most prolific American writers. He was born in 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and died in 1962 in Madison, New Hampshire.  He was a renowned poet, essayist, playwright, painter and author. He wrote more than...

So how many different forms of poetry could there possibly be? Turns out a lot! If you try to find a definitive list of all forms of poetry it would take up considerable time and space as it appears there are forms of poetry from A to Z...

Not unlike many literary figures through the ages the work of Edgar Allan Poe is much debated as to its meaning and literary worth. Poe has been both lauded and vilified as a writer and the discrepancies in the opinions of other writers and...

Some of the things we remember most vividly from childhood can be associated with a rhyme or a song. The simplest forms of nursery rhymes exist in many cultures passed down either in the written form or part of an oral tradition. Like all poetry...

Poetry has been around for longer than we can remember and has become one of strongest forms of artistic expression throughout history. People around the world have been moved to cultivate such a beautiful talent thanks to some historic poets...