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As Heaney put it, Tolkien convincingly showed how the poet behind “Beowulf” arrived “at a unity of effect and a balanced order” by a “combination of creative intuition and conscious structuring.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Recruiting firebrand poet Ezra Pound as her European talent scout, Anderson began publishing works by T.S.

From Los Angeles Times

Jully Lee was brilliant as Hannah, the itinerant painter who turns up with her 97-year-old poet father at a Mexican seaside inn that is like a refuge for the world’s strays.

From Los Angeles Times

The unlikely collaboration fused two sensibilities: Gershwin, a Jewish New Yorker steeped in classical music, Broadway and jazz; and Heyward, a white Charleston poet shaped by the post-Civil War South.

From The Wall Street Journal

A poet and scholar, James sought to avoid conflicts in Europe and commissioned the translation of the Bible that would bear his name.

From The Wall Street Journal