F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a poet, poetry was that which “makes nothing happen”. Arnold Bennett, a writer, ...

Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire has revealed the little-known poem that shows you can find at least 32 words which rhyme with ... of Horningsham a Christmas treat.

Today’s Poem of the Day, “Music on Christmas Morning,” appeared originally in 1846 ... belonged to an era when anyone who was literate at all could produce a competent poem in rhyme and meter. Most of ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — “‘Twas the night before Christmas ... We’ve all heard the rhyme before — but where did it come from? On Dec. 23 201 years ago, the poem “Account of a ...

“I Had A Little Nut Tree” is a British nursery rhyme ... Newest Christmas Box in 1797. In his 1843 book The Nursery Rhymes of England, James Orchard Halliwell speculated that the poem was ...