Hardy wrote some comic poetry, as well. For his birthday this month — June 2, 1840 — here’s “The Ruined Maid,” one of the lighter poems we offer on Wednesdays. The poem is in six quatrains of ...

Here in April, celebrated annually as National Poetry Month, I’ve been wondering: Is there a truly great poem about the Mississippi River? The question first came to mind last December when a ...

The Cambridge Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 2 (June 2017), pp. 99-118 (20 pages) This essay presents an account of Alice Oswald's first two collections of lyric poems, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile and ...

FALL RIVER'S RUINED MILLS. HATHAWAY, THE DEFAULTER, REFUSES TO MAKE FURTHER DISCLOSURES--HE IS ARRESTED AND SENT TO TAUNTON JAIL-- NO STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE MILLS OBTAINABLE.