Regular readers of the New York Times Book Review may recognize David Orr as that publication’s poetry critic — assuming they ever look at poetry criticism in the first place. Orr’s clear, ...

Modern poetry is markedly different from classic poetry. It relies less on meter and rhyme, and focuses more on biographical events and the everyday experiences of people. So why isn’t poetry more ...

Eufe Tantia Jr.’s new collection offers a reflective meditation on love, belief, and what it means to be human in a ...

Never one to miss out on National Poetry Month, I’m currently pages deep into several new collections that I’d like to recommend before this cruelest of months comes to an end. First up is a reissue ...

For me, poetry has forever been an elusive passion. Everyone always has a different understanding of poetry, making reading into this often-times-dense form of literature a rather refreshing ...

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THREE vices of contemporary poetry (all with certain strong exceptions in his favor) appear in D. H. Lawrence’sLast Poems (Viking Press, $3.00): the dissolution of metric, the mawkish saturation of ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Despite the ubiquity of the usage, it was not always so: John Dryden and Alexander Pope did not speak of a poet’s ...

THERE has been a real need for a definitive collection of modern poetry of the period since the World War, exemplifying recent work of established poets, the increase of associative imagery, the shift ...